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Meaning of psephism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2
ˈsiːfɪzəm

Definitions

A proposition adopted by a majority of votes, especially by the vote of the Athenian people; a statute.

historical

Examples

“No psephism shall pass to the commons before the senate's supervisal. The tablets on which the psephisms are engraved are by no means to be removed.”
“The well-known story of the Spartan psephism quoted by Boethius de musica, via. that the Spartans ordered him to cut off four of his eleven strings […] is contradicted by the present text”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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