单词 | dicastery |
释义 | dicastery|dɪˈkæstərɪ| Also dikastery. [ad. Gr. δικαστήριον a court of justice.] One of the courts of justice in which the dicasts sat; the court or body of dicasts.
[1656J. Harrington Oceana 147 (Jod.) The dicasterion..in Athens..the comitia of that commonwealth. 1822T. Mitchell Aristoph. II. 179 The very essence of the Athenian democracy..was centered in its Dicasteria, or courts of justice.] 1846Grote Greece i. xii. I. 304 It was unlawful to put to death any person, even under formal sentence by the dicastery. 1866Felton Anc. & Mod. Gr. II. vi. 99 The people in the country..were as likely to be drawn into the senate and dicasteries, as the people..of the town. |

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