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C — Co-meddle to Comitia (Part 6 of 6)

1. Approaching; of the future, especially the near future; the next; as, the coming week or year; the coming exhibition.

Welcome the coming, speed the parting, guest.
Pope.
Your coming days and years.
Byron.

2. Ready to come; complaisant; fond. [Obs.] Pope.

Coming
(Com"ing), n.

1. Approach; advent; manifestation; as, the coming of the train.

2. Specifically: The Second Advent of Christ.

Coming in. (a) Entrance; entrance way; manner of entering; beginning. "The goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof." Ezek. xliii. 11 (b) Income or revenue. "What are thy comings in?" Shak.

Comitia
(||Co*mi"ti*a) n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers or passing laws.

There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or assembly of the patricians, who voted in curiæ; comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or assembly of the plebeians according to their division into tribes.