Category:Plebiscite

Pleb"i*scite, n. Etym: [f. plébiscite, fr. L. plebiscitum.]

Defn: a vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in france, a Popular vote, as first sanctioned by the national constitution of 1791. [written also plebiscit.] Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the french. Fitzed. Hall.