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LEGISLATURE |
Senate |
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LEGISLATIVE |
Senate |
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TOGA |
Senate garment |
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SENATOR |
A member of a senate. |
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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. |
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JUDICIARY |
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vested; the system of courts of justice in a country; the judges, taken
collectively; as, an independent judiciary; the senate committee on ... |
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PRYTANIS |
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. |