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Areopagitic   Listen
adjective
Areopagitic  adj.  Pertaining to the Areopagus.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... created the new pre-considering senate, identified with and subsidiary to the popular assembly, he manifested no jealousy of the preexisting Areopagitic senate. On the contrary, he enlarged its powers, gave to it an ample supervision over the execution of the laws generally, and imposed upon it the censorial duty of inspecting the lives and occupation of the citizens, as well as of punishing men of idle and dissolute habits. He was himself, as ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1 • Various



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