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Noun

1. 1
   A psephism.

   "The ruin of the antient democracies was, that they ruled […] by occasional decrees, psephismata."

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psephism

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"The ruin of the antient democracies was, that they ruled […] by occasional decrees, psephismata."

Etymology

From Latin psēphisma, and its source, Ancient Greek ψήφισμα (psḗphisma).

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