English

Noun

plebiscitum ‎(plural plebiscitums)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate.
   • 1837 Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History

     Still worse went it with another individual; doomed, by extempore Plebiscitum, to the Lanterne;