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from The Century Dictionary.
- Noting a rock on the Capitoline Hill at Rome over which persons convicted of treason to the state were hurled.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to or designating a rock or peak of the Capitoline hill, Rome, from which condemned criminals were hurled.
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