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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Conferee :: Conferee (n.) One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the 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..
Preside :: Preside (v. i.) To be set, or to sit, in the place of authority; to occupy the place of president, chairman, moderator, director, etc.; to direct, control, and regulate, as chief officer; as, to preside at a public meeting; to preside over the senate..
Curia :: Curia (n.) The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
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..
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..
Pyroarsenate :: Pyroarsenate (n.) A salt of pyroarsenic acid.
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..
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..
Arseniate :: Arseniate (n.) See Arsenate.
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.
Senatorial :: Senatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity..
Equites :: Equites (n. pl) An order of knights holding a middle place between the senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order.
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..
Honorable :: Honorable (a.) An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable Senate; the honorable gentleman..
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..
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.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.
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