See Also: gerousia(encyclopedia)

Rudd (iou) and gerousia (sh)


Rudd (iou)



Rudd noun2. L18.
[Perh. from Margaret Caroline Rudd (d. 1779), famous courtesan for whom it may have been invented.]
Chiefly Hist. An elaborately fitted lady's dressing-table of a kind fashionable in the late 18th cent. Also more fully Rudd table.

gerousia (sh)




In ancient Sparta, the council of elders, one of two chief organs of the Spartan state, the Other being the apella.

The gerousia prepared business submitted to the apella and had extensive judicial powers: it alone pronounced sentences of death or exile. Its 30 members, the gerontes ("elders"), including the two kings, were chosen for life by acclamation of the citizens from among candidates of age 60 or older.