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noun

Tribunal n.

The seat of a judge; the bench on which a judge and his associates sit for administering justice.

Hence, a court or forum; as, the House of Lords, in England, is the highest tribunal in the kingdom.

Tribunal n. In villages of the Philippine Islands, a kind of townhall. At the tribunal the head men of the village met to transact business, prisoners were confined, and troops and travelers were often quartered.

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Etymology of 'Tribunal'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... case is entirely one of what is called circumstantial evidence, as such cases most generally are, and must be from the nature of things. Doubtless there are difficulties in the case—many and grave difficulties—with which it will be the duty of this tribunal to deal when the prisoner comes, if she does come, before us. The fact that the prisoner is charged with the deliberate murder of her friend—I may almost say her benefactress—with whom she had been living on terms of intimacy ...

— The Queen Against Owen • Allen Upward

... Brethren, there is the root of all our hope in Christ, and of all that Christ is to individuals and to society—the assurance that the breastplate of judgment is on His heart, as a sign that all who trust Him are acquitted by the tribunal of Heaven. ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

... in order to occasion the misfortunes that followed afterward), appointed the schoolmaster, Don Fabian de Santillan y Gabilanes, judge-conservator (because they declared that they were prevented from the exercise of their privileges). He accepted the appointment, and immediately erected a tribunal against the archbishop, issuing acts against him and fulminating censures in case he should again oppose the proceedings that had ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXV, 1635-36 • Various

... a light, fragrant cloud from the sweet-scented kinny-kinnick rose on the air like evening incense, making valid and unchangeable each resolve that tribunal of ...

— Birch Bark Legends of Niagara • Owahyah

... criticised the Jacobin orthodoxy were excommunicated—that is, were sent to the Revolutionary Tribunal, which they left only ...

— The Psychology of Revolution • Gustave le Bon

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