tribune

To regulate or manage by the authority of a tribune.

In Roman history, originally, a magistrate presiding over a tribe, or representing a tribe for certain purposes; specifically, a tribune of the people (tribunus plebis), an officer or magistrate chosen by the people, from the time of the secession (probably in 494 b. c.), to protect them from the oppression of the patricians or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts upon them by the senate and consuls.

Hence, one who upholds or defends popular rights; a champion of the people. In this sense the word is used as the name of various newspapers.

In a Roman basilica, the raised platform at one end of the auditorium, frequently in a small addition of semicircular plan to the main structure, which formed the official station of the pretor; the tribunal; hence, in Christian churches of basilican plan, the throne of the bishop (which originally occupied the place of the pretor’s seat), and the part of the church containing it; hence, again, in Italian churches generally, any apse or structure of apsidal form. See cut under basilica.

A raised seat or stand; a platform; a dais.

Specifically— The throne of a bishop. See def 1.

A sort of pulpit or rostrum where a speaker stands to address an assembly, as in the French chamber of deputies.

An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls.

Anciently, a bench or elevated place, from which speeches were delivered; in France, a kind of pulpit in the hall of the legislative assembly, where a member stands while making an address; any place occupied by a public orator.

an elected official in ancient Rome