Definition of senate

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

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Able :: Able (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech..
Negative :: Negative (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill..
Sulpharsenic :: Sulpharsenate (n.) A salt of sulpharsenic acid.
Pharmacosiderite :: Pharmacosiderite (n.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
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..
Senatorial :: Senatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity..
Plebiscitum :: Plebiscitum (n.) A law enacted by the common people, under the superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate..
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..
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..
Prytany :: Prytany (n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Prytanis :: Prytanis (n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year..
Pyroarsenate :: Pyroarsenate (n.) A salt of pyroarsenic acid.
Arsenate :: Arsenate (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.
Senate :: Senate (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..
Arseniate :: Arseniate (n.) See Arsenate.
Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
Senate :: Senate (n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.
Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber..
Pharmacolite :: Pharmacolite (n.) A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color..
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