DICAST
\dˈɪkast], \dˈɪkast], \d_ˈɪ_k_a_s_t]\
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By Noah Webster.
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DIKAST, d[=i]'kast, n. one of the 6000 Athenians annually chosen to act as judges.--n. DICAS'TERY, their court. [Gr. dikast[=e]s, dik[=e], justice.]
By Thomas Davidson
By Sir Augustus Henry
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[Gr., a judge.] One of the 5000 free citizens at Athens who were yearly balloted for and sworn in to serve as judges in the law courts. A judicial panel consisted of many dicasts, often of 500 or more ; they voted by ballot on the verdict, which the majority decided.
By Henry Percy Smith