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English Dictionary: plebiscite by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
plebiscite
n
  1. a vote by the electorate determining public opinion on a question of national importance
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Plebiscite \Pleb"i*scite\, n. [F. pl[82]biscite, fr. L.
      plebiscitum.]
      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.
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