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Forum   /fˈɔrəm/   Listen
Forum

noun
(pl. E. forums, L. fora)
1.
A public meeting or assembly for open discussion.
2.
A public facility to meet for open discussion.  Synonyms: assembly, meeting place.





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... the record of opportunities for action availed of or neglected. And opportunities are never wanting. They exist to-day in the cities of the New World, even as they did ages ago with young David in the valley of Elah, with the boy Marcus in the forum of Rome, or with the valiant young Harry of Monmouth striving for victory on the ...
— Historic Boys - Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times • Elbridge Streeter Brooks
... the den, the tribe, the forum, the theatre, etc., Bacon might well have placed the great eidolon of the parlor (or of the wit, as I have termed it in one of the previous Marginalia)—the idol whose worship blinds man to truth by dazzling him with the apposite. But what title ...
— Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 • Various
... displaying his wounds in the Forum is nothing to it." And she abruptly took the paper, and threw it disgustedly behind the sofa. Just then a message from the kitchen engaged Marian's attention, and Douglas, to relieve her from her guests for ...
— The Irrational Knot - Being the Second Novel of His Nonage • George Bernard Shaw
... Scimus quia lex bona est si quis ea vtatur legitime Ve vobis Jurisperitj Nee me verbosas leges ediscere nee me Ingrato voces prostituisse foro. fixit leges pretio atque refixit Nec ferrea Jura Insanumque forum et populi tabularia vidit Miscueruntque novercae non innoxia verba Jurisconsultj domus oraculum Civitatis now as ambiguows as oracles. Hic clamosi rabiosa forj Jurgia vendens improbus Iras et verba locat In veste varietas ...
— Bacon is Shake-Speare • Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence
... English People are rendered provoking by his extraordinary language concerning his opponents. 'Numskull,' 'beast,' 'fool,' 'puppy,' 'knave,' 'ass,' 'mongrel-cur,' are but a few of the epithets employed. This is doubtless mere matter of pleading, a rule of the forum where controversies between scholars are conducted; but for that very reason it makes the pamphlets as provoking to an ordinary reader as an old bill of complaint in Chancery must have been to an impatient ...
— Obiter Dicta - Second Series • Augustine Birrell


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