psephisma

noun

psephisma

noun

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

1

A psephism.

  • The ruin of the antient democracies was, that they ruled […] by occasional decrees, psephismata.1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France:

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