Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of senate is as below...

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..

Senatusconsult :: Senatusconsult (n.) A decree of the Roman senate.

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..

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..

Arsenate :: Arsenate (n.) A salt of arsenic acid.

Pharmacolite :: Pharmacolite (n.) A hydrous arsenate of lime, usually occurring in silky fibers of a white or grayish color..

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..

Prytany :: Prytany (n.) The period during which the presidency of the senate belonged to the prytanes of the section.

Arseniate :: Arseniate (n.) See Arsenate.

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..

Honorable :: Honorable (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman..

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..

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..

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..

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..

Senator :: Senator (n.) A member of a senate.

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..

Senate :: Senate (n.) The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London.

Sulpharsenic :: Sulpharsenate (n.) A salt of sulpharsenic acid.

Capitol :: Capitol () The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus, where the Senate met..

Random Fonts

Most Popular