\Co*mi"ti*a\, n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.)
A public assembly of the Roman people for electing officers
or passing laws.
Note: There were three kinds of comitia: comitia curiata, or
      assembly of the patricians, who voted in curi[ae];
      comitia centuriata, or assembly of the whole Roman
      people, who voted by centuries; and comitia tributa, or
      assembly of the plebeians according to their division
      into tribes.