A tribunal is a person or an institution with the authority and power to judge. For example, a court of justice is a tribunal. The word comes from the word "tribune", the name shared by members of the Roman Republic.

Andrew Birrell (after Henry Fuseli), Caractacus at the Tribunal of Claudius at Rome (1792)

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