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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

... on guard before the official buildings, but the sentinels were suddenly disarmed, and, without being able to tell how it happened, the palace was occupied by the citizens. The municipal councillors fled in every direction; only the president of the Senate remained firm, and only when the tumult became greater, he, too, went, guarded by an escort, to the Brobetto palace, which was situated in the centre of ...

— The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I (of 2) • Alexandre Dumas pere

... spirit of contention, but to deny its existence were to write one's self down an irremediable ass. It is in evidence everywhere, from the American senate to the country clown. To argue against the war spirit were like whistling in the teeth of a north wind. You cannot alter a psychological condition with a made-to-order editorial. It is urged that we should sing small, as we are "not prepared for war." We are always prepared. ...

— Volume 1 of Brann The Iconoclast • William Cowper Brann

... State of .... may receive regularly from the growing and developing youth of the Commonwealth a rapidly increasing number of more vigorous, better educated, healthier, happier, more prosperous and longer lived men and women, we, the people of the State of .... represented in the Senate and ...

— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper

... implication. More superficial, but still a good specimen of Mr. Mitchell's wit, is William Sudley's remark as to John Karslake: "Oh, yes, he comes of a very respectable family, though I remember his father served a term in the Senate." ...

— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea • Langdon Mitchell

... expedition, the court, the senate the admiralty, and the academy of sciences decided to provide with a lavish profusion that would dazzle the world with the brilliancy of Russian exploits. Russia was in the mood to do things. The young savants ...

— Vikings of the Pacific - The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward • Agnes C. Laut

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