Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The chapter-house of a cathedral or collegiate church.
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- noun A local government
council in some Spanish-speaking communities. - noun A
town hall in some Spanish-speaking countries
Etymologies
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Examples
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He is assigned therefor by the city, that is, the cabildo, to whom the city grants his gratuity.
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In this way they learn what goes on in the cabildo, which is a great evil.
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Each city was governed and administered by an institution imported directly from Spain: the town council, known as the "cabildo".
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Each city was governed and administered by an institution imported directly from Spain: the town council, known as the "cabildo".
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I started helping and organising the displaced at that time, and then I became a member of the local indigenous council ( "cabildo"), a community educator, a health worker and eventually governor of the reservation.
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I started helping and organising the displaced at that time, and then I became a member of the local indigenous council ( 'cabildo'), a community educator, a health worker and eventually governor of the reservation.
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The cabildo, therefore, continued its oversight of the regulation and discipline of medical practitioners until 1646 when the formal machinery of the royal Protomedicato was finally set in motion. 33
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In 1793, for example, professors at the University of Mexico repeatedly stated the need for regulation of midwifery; the surgeon and "master of anatomy," Miguel Moreno y Peña testified to the cabildo in Mexico City that "the swollen crowd of women who have introduced themselves into this city" practice at the expense of the lives of mothers and fetuses.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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Thus, the cabildo appointed the first protomédico of New Spain in 1525 to oversee the regulation of medical practice and the precarious health of the city's inhabitants.
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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In Cochabamba a cabildo was held whose conclusions were to ask the Prefect Manfred to resign, Ambassador Goldberg, who they believe backs the autonomia movement, to leave Bolivia, and that a date be set for the public vote to ratify the constitution.
Archive 2008-05-01 Gina 2008
chained_bear commented on the word cabildo
"Cochineal's indigenous producers also found the business profitable--too profitable, in the opinion of the Tlaxcalan cabildo, the council of elite Indians that oversaw daily life in the province. Concerned that the very success of the trade was leading to social disorder, the council prohibited the cultivation of cochineal in 1552. Evidently the measure failed, for nine months later, in March 1553, the council devoted an entire meeting to the cochineal problem. ...
Like most elite Tlaxcalans, they were fervent Catholic converts, and they noted with dismay that cochineal growers 'devote themselves to their cochineal on Sundays and holy days; no longer do they go to church to hear mass as the holy church commands us.' Even worse, 'they buy pulque and then get drunk. ...
What bothered the council most, however, was that the Tlaxcalan cochineal growers no longer showed proper deference to their betters. In the best tradition of nouveaux riches everywhere, the cochineal farmers were growing uppity."
Amy Butler Greenfield, A Perfect Red: Empire, Espionage, and the Quest for the Color of Desire (New York: Harper Collins, 2005), 95.
October 5, 2017