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▪ I. † senatory, n.1 Obs. [ad. med.L. senātōrium, f. L. senātōr-ius (see senatorial a.): see -ory1.] 1. The senatorial order or body. Chaucer's use is due to mistaking the adj. for a n.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. iv. (1868) 74 Þe rente of þe senatorie [is noþing but] a gret charge [L. et senatorii census gravis sarcina]. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 40 As for the comens vniuersally And a greate parte of the senatory Were of the same intencion. 1614Raleigh Hist. World v. ii. §6. 400 The Achaians..by a Senatorie and two Prætors, ordered all things in their Commonweale. 2. A senate-house. (Cf. senatoire.)
1474Caxton Chesse ii. ii, And thus hit happend anone after that alle the wyues of rome cam to the senatorye. ▪ II. senatory, n.2 French Hist.|ˈsɛnətərɪ| Also -orie. [ad. F. sénatorerie, f. L. senātor senator: see -ery.] The landed estate granted to a senator under the consulate and the first empire.
1804Revol. Plutarch III. 164 Lucien was..afterwards ordered to visit his senatories on the Rhine. 1810Ann. Reg. 503 A senatory shall be established in the departments of Rome and Trasimene. 1827Scott Napoleon xxix. Wks. 1870 XI. 349 Monsieur Fargues, senator of the district of Bearn, whom these plots..interested as having his senatorie for their scene. 1898J. B. Rye in Eng. Hist. Rev. July 490 You leave in twenty-four hours, to live in your senatory. ▪ III. † senatory, a. Obs. rare. [ad. L. senātōri-us (see senatorial a.): see -ory2. Cf. OF. senatoire.] = senatorial a.
1523[Coverdale] Old God (1534) H j, The comen people was taught to say, that Charles was of the senatorie stocke gouernour of Rome. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. viii. 124 By senatory authority P. Sulpitius..was committee to transact with the enemy for leaving the Roman territory. a1618Raleigh Maxims of State ii. Rem. (1664) 5 Aristocracy, or Senatory State. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xviii. 646 A Gentleman..of the Senatory Order, being subject to Diseases in his Spleen. |