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aedility en · NOUN

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin aedīlitās, from Latin aedīlis (“commissioner or magistrate”), from aedēs + -īlis. By surface analysis, aedile + -ity.

Meanings

1. (Ancient-Rome, historical) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings.
   • To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths. 2013, Jacob Isager, “Book 36: Marble art and architecture”, in Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art:
   • 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:

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aedile