Definition of senate

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Senate (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.

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Curia :: Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
Senatusconsult :: Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.
Confirm :: Confirm (v. t.) To render valid by formal assent; to complete by a necessary sanction; to ratify; as, to confirm the appoinment of an official; the Senate confirms a treaty..
Tribune :: Tribune (n.) An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect them from the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend their liberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by the senate and consuls..
Conferee :: Conferee (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate..
Arsenate :: Arsenate (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber..
Senate :: Senate (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..
Capitol :: Capitol () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met..
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To go successfully through, as an examination, trail, test, etc.; to obtain the formal sanction of, as a legislative body; as, he passed his examination; the bill passed the senate..
Senatorial :: Senatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity..
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Senate :: Senate (n.) In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government..
Order :: Order (n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the senate..
Imperator :: Imperator (n.) A commander; a leader; an emperor; -- originally an appellation of honor by which Roman soldiers saluted their general after an important victory. Subsequently the title was conferred as a recognition of great military achievements by the senate, whence it carried wiht it some special privileges. After the downfall of the Republic it was assumed by Augustus and his successors, and came to have the meaning now attached to the word emperor..
Honorable :: Honorable (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman..
Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
Arseniate :: Arseniate (n.) See Arsenate.
Programma :: Programma (n.) Any law, which, after it had passed the Athenian senate, was fixed on a tablet for public inspection previously to its being proposed to the general assembly of the people..
Senate :: Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority..
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