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ˈsenate-house
[house n.1]
1. A house or building in which a senate meets.
c1550N. Smyth tr. Herodian ii. 18 He wente too the Senate house. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. ii. ii. 52 Wee'l send Mark Antony to the Senate house. 1634Milton Comus 389 Musing meditation most affects The pensive secrecy of desert cell,..And sits as safe as in a Senat house. a1700Evelyn Diary 4 Oct. 1641, The Senate-house of this city [Antwerp] is a very spacious and magnificent building. 1709Addison Tatler No. 162 ⁋7 It was usual for them to expel a Senator who had been guilty of great Immoralities out of the Senate-House. 1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 815 The Curia or senate-house.
transf.a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (Sommer) 129 b, The senate house of the planets was at no time so set, for the decreeing of perfection in a man, as at that time all folkes skilful therin did acknowledge. 1608Shakes. Per. i. i. 10. 1821 Shelley Hellas Prol. 2 It is the day when all the sons of God Wait in the roofless senate-house, whose floor Is Chaos.
2. spec. The building which serves for the meetings of the senate of a university, esp. of Cambridge.
1748Salmon Foreigner's Comp. Cambr. 15 The Senate-House is a magnificent and elegant Building; the Length [etc.]. 1769Gray (title), Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge. 1797Cambr. Univ. Cal. 148 In the senate-house the elections of all the officers of the university take place, the appointments of the magistrates, the admissions to degrees, congregations, and consultations upon important matters by the senate, and by a statute of the university, no language is to be spoken therein but Latin. 1862Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 43 Past the Senate-house I saunter.
b. attrib. senate-house examination, examination for degrees in Cambridge University; so senate-house examiner; senate-house problem, a mathematical problem proposed in a Senate-house examination.
1837Math. Probl. fr. Senate-House Exam. Papers Pref. 7 Questions which have actually been set from time to time, at the Senate-House examinations. 1855Househ. Words 8 Dec. 442/2 He harassed me with questions about the book as pertinaciously as any senate-house examiner. 1875Cayley Math. Papers (1896) IX. 246 A Senate-house Problem. |