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From Latin catilīnārius.
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Catilinarian (comparative more Catilinarian, superlative most Catilinarian)
- Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator who attempted to overthrow the Roman Empire; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.
- Catilinarian conspiracy
- Catilinarian War
1880, Anthony Trollope, The Life of Cicero, volume I:We cannot execrate the conspirators who murdered Cæsar as we would do those who might now plot the death of a tyrant; nor can we deal as heavily with the murderers of Cæsar as we would have done then with Catilinarian conspirators in Rome, had Catiline's conspiracy succeeded.
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