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aedilities

aedilities is the plural of aedility.

Meaning of aedility

Noun

aedility (plural aedilities)

  1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
    • Their trunke or hand is most easie to be cut off; for so it happened in the aedility or temple office of Claudius, Antonius and Posthumus being consuls...1604, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts

Questions about aedilities

What is aedilities the plural of?
Aedilities is the plural of aedility.

Words near aedilities in the dictionary

  1. aediles
  2. aedileship
  3. aedileships
  4. aedilian
  5. aedilic
  6. aedilities
  7. aedility
  8. aedine
  9. Aedo
  10. aedoe-
  11. AEDs

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