tribunal
/tɹaɪˈbjunəl/ noun C1- An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
- A kind of village hall used to transact business, to quarter troops and travellers, and to confine prisoners.
Plural tribunals
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A higher Judge had taken the matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would be meted out to him.
“‘The public is informed that on Wednesday, February 23rd, being the first day of the Carnival, executions will take place in the Piazza del Popolo, by order of the Tribunal of the Rota, of two persons, named Andrea Rondolo, and Peppino, otherwise called Rocca Priori; the former found guilty of the murder of a venerable and exemplary priest, named Don César Torlini, canon of the church of St.
After every action requiring exertion, it is conscience that saves us, for it supplies us with a thousand good excuses, of which we alone are judges; and these reasons, howsoever excellent in producing sleep, would avail us but very little before a tribunal, when we were tried for our lives.
If you drag us both before a tribunal I will still say, ‘No, my daughter is not guilty;—there is no crime in my house.
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