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senatorial, a.|sɛnəˈtɔərɪəl|
[f. L. senātōri-us (f. senātōr-em senator) + -al1. Cf. F. sénatorial (1727 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. Of or pertaining to a senator or senators; characteristic of or befitting a senator; consisting of senators.
a. With reference to ancient Rome, or to other states of antiquity.
senatorial order: the highest of the three ranks of citizens in the later Roman republic.
1791Cowper Iliad x. 490 Hector, with all the Senatorial Chiefs [x. 414 ὅσοι βουληϕόροι εἰσί]. 1842Smith's Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq. 851/1 It has been supposed by Niebuhr..that a senatorial census existed at Rome at the commencement of the second Punic war. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. ii. (1865) I. 53 Whole cities and states placed themselves sometimes under the protection of a senatorial patron. a1859De Quincey Aelius Lamia Wks. 1860 X. 306 A Roman noble, a man..of senatorial rank.
b. With reference to modern senates.
1740Johnson's Debates (1789) I. 19 (Sir R. Walpole), The authority which can be conferred only by senatorial sanctions. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. ii. 175 Not as at Venice, and many other senatorial assemblies. 1796Coleridge Watchman No. i. 20 The attack on the Duke of Bedford, for enjoying the senatorial office by hereditary right. 1855Thackeray Newcomes ii, He eschewed honours senatorial. 1897Edin. Rev. Jan. 145 The senatorial leader.
2. Of a Roman province under the Empire: Administered by the senate (not by the emperor).
1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. I. 102 Into those provinces which were senatorial, the senate continued to send pro-consuls or prætors as Governors. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 342 Bithynia [was] at that time a senatorial province.
3. U.S. ‘Entitled to elect a Senator: as, a Senatorial district’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
1785T. Jefferson Notes Virginia App. 2 Let each county at the time of electing its delegates, chuse senatorial electors... Let the senatorial districts be divided into two classes. 1864Harper's Mag. Mar. 568/2 Mrs X―..resides in our senatorial district. 1948Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Oklahoma) 23 July 14/6 This Senatorial district of Carter county is the birthplace and home of Joe.
Hence senaˈtorially adv., in a senatorial manner.
1754A. Drummond Trav. i. 17 The mother was chearful; the father senatorially grave. 1821Examiner 83/1 Whatever may be thought senatorially of the modest assertion,..the people at large may laugh at it. |