Dictionary entry

Plebiscite

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Pleb″i‐scite (?), n. [F. plébiscite, fr. L. plebiscitum.] A vote by universal male suffrage; especially, in France, a popular vote, as first sanctioned by the National Constitution of 1791. [Written also plebiscit.]

Plebiscite we have lately taken, in popular use, from the French. Fitzed. Hall.