‖ comices, n. pl. Obs. rare.
[Fr. comices, ad. L. comitia (cf. notice, etc.): the form comites is probably a scribal error or misprint; in Blount it stands in the alphabetic place of Comices.]
= comitia 1.
| 1533 Bellenden Livy i. (1822) 57 Quhen this regent had maid his comites..the pepill chesit Ancus Marcius to be king. 1600 Holland Livy iii. liv. 124 The chiefe priest immediatly held the Comices. 1681 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 5), Comites (Comitia) solemn Assemblies of the people at Rome. |