fascesn.
/ˈfasiːz/, U.S. /ˈfæsiz/ With plural agreement.
1.
a. A bundle of rods bound up with an axe in the middle and its blade projecting. These rods were carried by lictors before the superior magistrates at Rome as an emblem of their power.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod
yardc1275
tipped stickc1386
bastona1400
mace?a1419
wandc1430
warderc1440
baculc1449
roda1450
verge1493
staff1535
tipstaff1541
verger1547
truncheon1573
vare1578
baton?1590
trunch1590
fasces1598
macer wanda1600
virge1610
batoona1652
stick1677
shaku1875
poker1905
1598 R. Grenewey tr. Tacitus Annales i. iii. 5 The fasces or knitch of rods.
1713 J. Swift Faggot In history we never found The consuls' fasces were unbound.
1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxiii. 401 The consular fasces, the emblem of the hated Roman authority.
b. Heraldry. As a badge.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > [noun] > specific emblems, badges, or cognizances > others
cocklestone1591
Rosy Cross1621
toison d'or1704
greyhound1747
foul anchor1754
red cross1866
Geneva cross1870
Tammany tiger1871
fasces1889
waist-plate1902
blue star1917
gold star1917
red ribbon1990
1889 C. N. Elvin Dict. Heraldry 58/1 Fascis, the Fasces are now frequently given to those who have held magisterial offices.
2. transferred and figurative.† b. The punishments threatened by the fasces; flogging or beheading. Obsolete.
a. The ensigns of authority or power, esp. in to take, lay down, resign the fasces, hence also, authority.
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society > authority > power > [noun] > symbols of power
hornc825
rod1526
fascesa1625
society > authority > office > withdrawing from or vacating office > vacate office [verb (intransitive)]
resign1395
recede1452
retirec1598
to take, lay down, resign the fascesa1625
to go out1642
to sing one's nunc dimittis1642
to make one's bowa1656
to lay down1682
to swear off1698
vacate1812
to send in one's papers1872
to step down1890
to stand down1926
society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun]
ensigna1522
ensignment1567
office badge1593
fascesa1625
insignia1648
insigne1773
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > accede to office [verb (intransitive)] > assume office or authority
to take, lay down, resign the fascesa1625
a1625 J. Fletcher Valentinian v. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ddddddd/1 He must take the Fasces.
1667 J. Dryden Annus Mirabilis 1666 l. 13 The Duke..shook aloft the Fasces of the Main.
1673–95 A. Wood Life (1848) 184 The senr. proctor..laid down the fasces of his authority.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 292 Diocletian's self-corrected mind The imperial fasces of a world resigned.
1797 E. Burke Let. Affairs Ireland in Wks. (1812) V. *321 You must submit your fasces to theirs.
1827 T. B. Macaulay Machiavelli in Ess. (1854) 49/2 He pines for..the fasces of Brutus.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > beheading
beheading?c1225
decollationa1387
headinga1400
fasces1641
decolling1648
decapitation1650
beheadal1859
1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. vii. 109 That Tragedy, whose Epilogue was Flame and Fagot, or at least the Fasces to younger men.
c. humorously. The birch rod.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rod or birch
besomc893
yardc1000
rodlOE
baleysa1259
ferule1559
scutcher1611
birch1648
whisk rod1688
twig1736
fasces1762
tickler1765
tickle-tail1785
wand1828
tickle-toby1830
birch-rod1834
birch-wand1876
1762 S. Foote Orators i. 14 The fescues, and fasces..have been..consign'd to one, or more matron in every village.
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