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noun
A device used in sortition, consisting of a stone slab incised with rows of slots and with an attached tube, and operating on tokens representing citizens.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: Athenian democracy
Topics: history, human-sciences, sciences
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History
Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek κληρωτήριον (klērōtḗrion), from κληρόω (klēróō, “appoint by lot”) + -τήριον (-tḗrion, adjective suffix).
