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Alternative forms

• ædility (rare)

Noun

aedility ‎(plural aedilities)

1. (historical, Ancient Rome) The office of an elected official responsible for festivals and the maintenance of public buildings. See aedile.
   • 1604, Edward Topsell, The History of Four-footed Beasts:

     Their trunke or hand is most easie to be cut off; for so it happened in the aedility or temple office of Claudius, Antonius and Posthumus being consuls...

   • 2013, Jacob Isager, “Book 36: Marble art and architecture”, in Pliny on Art and Society: The Elder Pliny's Chapters On The History Of Art:

     To commemorate his aedility Agrippa added public games lasting for 59 days as well as free admission to 170 public baths.