Senate
['senɪt] or ['sɛnət]
Definition
(n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
(n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority.
(n.) The upper and less numerous branch of a legislature in various countries, as in France, in the United States, in most of the separate States of the United States, and in some Swiss cantons.
(n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.
(n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
(n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students.
Checker: Nathan
Definition
n. a legislative or deliberative body esp. the upper house of a national legislature as of France the United States &c.: a body of venerable or distinguished persons: the governing body of the University of Cambridge.—ns. Sen′ate-house a house in which a senate meets; Sen′ator a member of a senate: in Scotland the lords of session are called Senators of the College of Justice.—adj. Senatō′rial pertaining to or becoming a senate or a senator.—adv. Senatō′rially with senatorial dignity.—ns. Sen′atorship; Senā′tus a governing body in certain universities.—Senātus academicus the governing body of a Scotch university consisting of the principal and professors; Senātus consult a decree of the senate of ancient Rome.
Editor: Lora
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A body of elderly gentlemen charged with high duties and misdemeanors.
Typist: Sol
Examples
- And particularly, whether they were ever admitted as members in the lower senate? Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- It was a war between the idea of a united Italy and the idea of the rule of the Roman Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- More and more important grow the legions; less and less significant are the Senate and the assemblies of Rome. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So long as there was no actual violence, the Senate and the financiers kept on in their own disastrous way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He appeared not in the streets except when he went to the forum or the senate house. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We know that probably his deepest sincerity is an attempt to reproduce the atmosphere of the Senate a hundred years ago. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Caligula, when he put his brother to death, gave it as a reason to the Senate that the youth was afraid of being murdered. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- He was the father-in-law of Hasdrubal and the father of a boy Hannibal, destined to be the most dreaded enemy that ever scared the Roman Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When it had seemed doubtful whether the Senate would let him go as the Roman general, he had threatened an appeal to the people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I desired that the senate of Rome might appear before me, in one large chamber, and an assembly of somewhat a later age in counterview, in another. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- No class of public-spirited and trustworthy men remained; no senate nor council shared and developed his schemes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next year was also a year of failure for the incompetents of the Senate. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He expelled Manlius from the Senate for giving his wife a kiss in the daytime in the sight of their daughter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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