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Sentence Examples The magistracy continued to be controlled by patricians until 351 BC, when Gaius Marcius Rutilus was appointed the first plebeian censor. Severe penalties were to be inflicted on those harming the tribunes or other plebeian officers. She is impudently vernal, like Hogarth's more plebeian Shrimp-Girl, and even more fluorescent in her dewiness. You can also use the more plebeian methods including posting in forums and furnishing articles for the various article directories. It is terrible, this aggressively plebeian culture that celebrates itself for being plebeian. This is a point of view which is all too familiar and one which, to use a distressingly plebeian phrase, gets right up my nose. From my plebeian perch in rural Mississippi, I have observed the actions of this administration with a kind of detached concern. You know, call me a plebeian, call me a killjoy, but two hundred quid strikes me as a bit on the steepish side for a bunch of fish and rice. Bystanders, assailants, and victims typically attributed deadly saloon brawls to violations of or challenges to the rules of plebeian culture. Oligarchies are established through these alliances and society is divided between patrician rulers and plebeian slaves. Yet he seems oblivious to the fact that he is out of his element in the vulgar, plebeian world of the Victorian stage. Offices required popular election, and tribunes represented a plebeian constituency. The West Riding of Yorkshire in the late eighteenth century was ill-famed for its robust and independent plebeian culture. The hotel re-emerged in a new, swank avatar which had no space to spare for a plebeian ice cream parlour. The use of colour is striking, jumping from violent red and black to smudgy warm interiors that contain artistic treasures, or the white utilitarian rooms of plebeian offices. He was also vigilant in his study of young plebeian women bathing. Reading from the same script, Chávez advanced social reforms aimed at consolidating a base of support among the plebeian poor. The success may have been imperial but the game was plebeian for the most part and ended in near-anarchy. While his neighbours were building their socialist commune, his Russian-born parents put up a fence to keep such plebeian ideas out. Mr Dollé claimed that Arcelor is producing aristocratic perfume whilst Mittal is making plebeian eau de cologne. Show More Sentences Hezbollah is not fighting against neoliberalism, although it can cater to the needs of its plebeian constituency at times. Numerous plebeian families lived in the area, which exhibited all of the human and social problems of the Emperor's capital. Moreover, there has never existed a sovereign family traceable to plebeian origins. Compared to the more plebeian versions of the Lexus LS, two things stand out: the triple xenon headlights and the electric blue Lexus bagding. He was plebeian aedile 199 and praetor 198, when he may have carried the Porcian law which extended the right of provocatio to cases of scourging. In short, the existence of a long tradition of plebeian radicalism and its cultural and institutional expression are undoubtedly of great significance. How quaint to find this plebeian trait alive and well in Starkey. Amid abandoned houses, plebeian hovels and piles of refuse and sewage, there were government offices, arms factories, official warehouses, and active markets. After 1848 plebeian intellectuals and activists in Ashton and other localities retreated into the quietist world of democratic dinners, lectures, and education. For the moment then, the TV executive who discriminated against me because of my plebeian roots is probably safe to continue discriminating against other cheeky upstarts. Waldron recognises Locke's debt to the most plebeian elements of the English revolution and thinks that he is closer to the Levellers than is often supposed. Pushing to excess casualty stories and other travails of military conflict are many plebeian sensationalists who fail to place such issues in proper perspective. His posthumous adoption by Julius Caesar elevated his plebeian gens Octavia to patrician status. The result was that control over the state fell, not onto the shoulders of voters, but to the new plebeian nobility. As the tribunes and the senators grew closer, plebeian senators were often able to secure the tribunate for members of their own families. We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers. The senate realised the need to use plebeian officials to accomplish desired goals. In 367 BC a law was passed which required the election of at least one plebeian aedile each year. The result of these reforms was that any law passed by the plebeian would have the full force of law. The plebeian soldiers refused to march against the enemy, and instead seceded to the Aventine Hill. Show More Sentences This study of activists and plebeian intellectuals in Ashton-under Lyne suggests a different way of conceptualizing this crucial relationship. Zinn did give voice to many heroic, plebeian losers. Plus, I had my own traumatic event of the year to get through whilst she was on the telly: choking down the Brussels sprout of the year at a distinctly plebeian mealtime. Everything the plebeian possessed or acquired legally belonged to the gens. Mexico has seen a series of protracted and bitterly fought strikes and massive protests, including a huge plebeian upheaval against increases in the price of basic foods. In rallying support for Zuma, the SACP and COSATU misleaders point to his plebeian background and history as a central leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC's military wing, during the anti-apartheid struggle. We, lawyers of the world, are the tribunes of the universal plebeian. In contrast with the Volunteer Force, and the similar Yeomanry Cavalry, they were considered rather plebeian. In the tradition of Georges Rud and E. P. Thompson, but more extensively than either, it redefines the boundaries of the political sphere to include the pressures imposed by plebeian street activism. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian gens Octavia. During this period the city was neglected, until the power fell in the hand of a plebeian man, Cola di Rienzo. By 287 BC, the economic condition of the average plebeian had become poor. Thus, the number of plebeian senators probably increased quickly. The first plebeian consul, Lucius Sextius, was elected the following year. Rather than joining the middle-class Rechabite temperance association to which his Uncle Tristram belonged, Gilman became a member of the more plebeian Washingtonians. It is possible that only the chronology has been distorted, but it seems that one of the first consuls, Lucius Junius Brutus, came from a plebeian family. This became less important in the later Republic, as some plebeian families became wealthy and entered politics, and some patrician families fell economically. Other scholars have by contrast stressed the subversive aspects of the legend, and see in the medieval Robin Hood ballads a plebeian literature hostile to the feudal order. They elected their own officers, plebeian tribunes and plebeian aediles. Our more plebeian plumbaginous pleasure is, at least, predictable. Show More Sentences In 120 BC, Marius was returned as plebeian tribune for the following year. Plebeian children would follow in the career of their parents. Tiberius submitted this law to the Plebeian Council, but the law was vetoed by a tribune named Marcus Octavius. This made his person sacrosanct, gave him the power to veto the senate, and allowed him to dominate the Plebeian Council. This was not the first law to require that an act of the Plebeian Council have the full force of law. Shortly before 312 BC, the Plebeian Council enacted the Plebiscitum Ovinium. The low Plebeian and middle Equestrian classes lived in the city center, packed into apartments, or Insulae, which were almost like modern ghettos. Many of the political subtleties of the Second Settlement seem to have evaded the comprehension of the Plebeian class, who were Augustus' greatest supporters and clientele. Examples from Classical Literature I believe he was shocked by my plebeian abruptness but he was too polite to show it. If he had not the air of a thoroughbred, he had none of the plebeian clumsiness of the cart-horse. Her bloodstained practising had succeeded in foisting one baseborn plebeian of alien blood into the family. Meanwhile the purely plebeian society was growing, and the toe of the clown beginning to gall the kibe of the courtier. Her plebeian, insolent little round face so kindly in repose. Also a few uncommon words, like seignior, inveigle, plebeian. He was a German plebeian, with no chance ever to improve his condition. Thither, too, thronged the plebeian classes as freely as their betters, and in larger number. The plebeian order was composed of the lowest class of freemen. She was fresh and pretty-looking, but of plebeian figure and countenance. I had forgotten I was a plebeian, I was remembering I was a man. I smiled as I unfolded it, and devised how I would tease you about your aristocratic tastes, and your efforts to masque your plebeian bride in the attributes of a peeress. The fact that this young woman had never moistened the selvedge edge of her soul with a less plebeian tipple than champagne, had a marked and subduing effect on Harris. And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman. Pocket to be brought up from her cradle as one who in the nature of things must marry a title, and who was to be guarded from the acquisition of plebeian domestic knowledge. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of plebeian? Words that rhyme with plebeian What is the plural of plebeian? What is the adverb for plebeian? What is the adjective for plebeian? What is the noun for plebeian? Translations for plebeian Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words plebe pleb pleats pleating pleather pleated plebeians plebes plebian plebians plebiscitary plebiscite 8-letter Words Starting With p pl ple pleb plebe plebei plebeia