Definition of senate

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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..

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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..
Arseniate :: Arseniate (n.) See Arsenate.
Pharmacosiderite :: Pharmacosiderite (n.) A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowish green cubic crystals; cube ore.
Senatorial :: Senatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity..
Negative :: Negative (v. t.) To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as, the Senate negatived the bill..
But :: But (adv. & conj.) On the contrary; on the other hand; only; yet; still; however; nevertheless; more; further; -- as connective of sentences or clauses of a sentence, in a sense more or less exceptive or adversative; as, the House of Representatives passed the bill, but the Senate dissented; our wants are many, but quite of another kind..
Prorector :: Prorector (n.) An officer who presides over the academic senate of a German university.
Senator :: Senator (n.) A member of a senate.
Pass :: Pass (v. t.) To cause to advance by stages of progress; to carry on with success through an ordeal, examination, or action; specifically, to give legal or official sanction to; to ratify; to enact; to approve as valid and just; as, he passed the bill through the committee; the senate passed the law..
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc..
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..
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..
Capitol :: Capitol () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met..
Senate :: Senate (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
Prytany :: Prytany (n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.
Senate :: Senate (n.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority..
Arsenate :: Arsenate (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.
Honorable :: Honorable (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman..
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..
Pedarian :: Pedarian (n.) One of a class eligible to the office of senator, but not yet chosen, who could sit and speak in the senate, but could not vote; -- so called because he might indicate his opinion by walking over to the side of the party he favored when a vote was taken..
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