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LEGISLATURE |
Senate |
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LEGISLATIVE |
Senate |
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TOGA |
Senate garment |
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EEL |
Senate elected secretly slippery fellow |
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SENATOR |
A member of a senate. |
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WASN'T |
Weak senate regularly hides major contraction |
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SENATUSCONSULT |
A decree of the Roman senate. |
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SEDATE |
Calm down! First and last motion will be traded in senate |
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PRORECTOR |
An officer who presides over the academic senate of a
German university. |
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CURIA |
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the
senate house. |
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HONORABLE |
An epithet of respect or distinction; as, the honorable
Senate; the honorable gentleman. |
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CAPITOL |
The temple of Jupiter, at Rome, on the Mona Capitolinus,
where the Senate met. |
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PRYTANY |
The period during which the presidency of the senate
belonged to the prytanes of the section. |
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NEGATIVE |
To reject by vote; to refuse to enact or sanction; as,
the Senate negatived the bill. |
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VACANCY |
A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a
vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc. |
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CHAMBER |
A hall, as where a king gives audience, or a deliberative
body or assembly meets; as, presence chamber; senate chamber. |
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EQUITES |
An order of knights holding a middle place between the
senate and the commonalty; members of the Roman equestrian order. |
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CONFEREE |
One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a
conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate. |
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SENATORIAL |
Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to
a senator, or a senate; as, senatorial duties; senatorial dignity. |
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ORDER |
That which prescribes a method of procedure; a rule or
regulation made by competent authority; as, the rules and orders of the
senate. |
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PLEBISCITUM |
A law enacted by the common people, under the
superintendence of a tribune or some subordinate plebeian magistrate,
without the intervention of the senate. |
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ABLE |
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. |
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CONFIRM |
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. |
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PASS |
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. |
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PROGRAMMA |
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. |