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noun

Senate n.

An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions. Specifically:

(a)

(Anc. Rom.) A body of elders appointed or elected from among the nobles of the nation, and having supreme legislative authority. "The senate was thus the medium through which all affairs of the whole government had to pass."

(b)

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.

(c)

In general, a legislative body; a state council; the legislative department of government.

The governing body of the Universities of Cambridge and London. (Eng.)

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. (U. S.)

Senate chamber, a room where a senate meets when it transacts business.

Senate house, a house where a senate meets when it transacts business.

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"Senate" Quotes from Famous Books

... be as good a monarch as he now seems disposed to be! How, too, could Brutus say that he found no personal cause—none in Caesar's past conduct as a man? Had he not passed the Rubicon? Had he not entered Rome as a conqueror? Had he not placed his Gauls in the Senate?—Shakespeare, it may be said, has not brought these things forward—True;—and this is just the ground of my perplexity. What character did Shakespeare ...

— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge

... you prosper, Our Senate, wearied of their tetrarchies, Their quarrels with themselves, their spites at Rome, Is like enough to cancel them, and throne One king above them all, who shall be true To the Roman: and from what I heard in Rome, This tributary ...

— Becket and other plays • Alfred Lord Tennyson

... Roman dominion in Gaul, he gained time to mature his designs, and he afforded his party in Rome an opportunity of promoting his interest and exaggerating his exploits, which they did in such a manner as to draw from the Senate a decree for a very remarkable acknowledgment of his services in a supplication or thanksgiving of twenty days. This attempt, not being pursued, stands single, and has little or no connection with the ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That there be printed and bound in cloth one hundred thousand copies of the Special Report on the Diseases of the Horse, the same to be first revised and brought to date, under the ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... and of the world, before the people, in the face of God, while he appealed to honour, the sanctity of an oath, faith, religion, the sacredness of human life, the law, the generosity of all hearts, wives, sisters, mothers, civilization, liberty, the republic, France; before his valets, his Senate and his Council of State; before his generals, his priests, and his police agents,—thou who representest the people (for the people is truth); thou who representest intelligence (for intelligence is enlightenment); thou who representest humanity (for humanity is reason); in the ...

— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

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