plebean

When a revolution was brewing against the oligarchic government with its monarchic element, a compromise was reached by which monarchic and oligarchic elements were retained side by side with the newly acquired powers of the democratic elements of the assemblies of the plebs and the plebean tribunes.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas KURT VON FRITZ 1968

One might have thought that this awful thing the South had done was heard of for the first time, and had birth alone in the brains of the fiery aristocrats who tore themselves away from their plebean cousins; whereas history shows, as

Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War Eugenia Dunlap Potts

Suppose that in this country the Lords should by compact refuse to attend Parliament, for the express purpose of extorting concessions in favour of themselves by bringing the process of legislation to a stand: the sovereign, in that case, must either submit to the terms of the refractory nobles, or by prerogative create a new peerage from the plebean ranks.

The Parables of Our Lord William Arnot

Li vy, the most elegant and principal of the Roman historians, was, perhaps, as superstitious as the most unlearned plebean.

the literary miscellany or, lections and extracts, classical and scientific; with originals, in ... shenstone and franklin 1812

Captain retired, after promising to use his utmost endeavours to obtain a part, if not the whole, of Signor Lima’s request; whose soul revolted against the necessity of submitting to a plebean agent, employed, as was most probable, by

The Irish Guardian, or, Errors of Eccentricity 1809