a. [f. L. tribūnīci-us + -AL. Cf. OF. tribunicial (14th c. in Godef.).] Of or pertaining to a Roman tribune; tribunitian. Also transf.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus’ Ann., III. xii. (1622), 81. Tiberius … sent letters to the Senate, requesting the Tribuniciall authority for Drusus.
1621. Jas. I., Answ. to Petit. Comm., in Rushw., Hist. Coll. (1659), I. 46. If you would give as good ear to them, as you do to some Tribunitial Orators among you.
1783. Blair, Lect. Rhet. (1813), I. xiii. 295. Those terrible tribunitial harangues, by which he inflamed … the citizens of Rome.
1858. Bushnell, Nat. & Supernat., xii. (1864), 380. Reason may be allowed to have a tribunitial veto against it.
1885. G. Salmon, in Academy, 5 Dec., 368/1. The tribunicial power was conferred on Trajan in the month of October.
