Fo"rum (?), n.; pl. E. Forums (#), L. Fora (#). [L.; akin to foris, foras, out of doors. See Foreign.]
1.
A market place or public place in Rome, where causes were judicially tried, and orations delivered to the people.
2.
A tribunal; a court; an assembly empowered to hear and decide causes.
He [Lord Camden] was . . . more eminent in the senate than in the forum.
Brougham.
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