aedileship
nounEtymology From aedile + -ship.
1
Historical The office of an aedile.
2
Historical The period or duration of this office.
- Two brothers of this name were, as we have seen, the authors of the law which threw open the offices of augur and pontifex to the commons, and afterwards in their aedileship they ornamented the city with several works of art1845, Thomas Arnold, From the Gaulish invasion to the end of the First Punic War: