Definitions for fasces

fasces fas·ces

Spelling: [fas-eez]
IPA: /ˈfæs iz/

Fasces is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in fasces (acefss).

Definitions for fasces

noun

  1. a bundle of rods containing an ax with the blade projecting, borne before Roman magistrates as an emblem of official power.

Origin of fasces

1590-1600; Latin, plural of fascis bundle, pack

Examples for fasces

He desired not the purple and the fasces, the insignia of vulgar command.

They also carried the fasces, and executed criminal sentences.

The other genius is that of Unity, crowned by an oak-wreath; he holds the fasces, to show that union is strength.

Did you admit a man who was so openly filthy to the fasces and the tribunal?

The Egyptians were offended to see the Roman fasces carried before him.

On one side of it is a bust of the general, and on the other a trophy of English arms surrounding a fasces.

Before him strode his twelve lictors bearing their fasces erect.

It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver.

I ask no splendor, no pomp of triumphs, nor lictors with their fasces.

The number of fasces and lictors varied with the dignity of the magistrate.

Word Value for fasces
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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