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单词 senate-house
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senate-housen.

Etymology: house n.1 and int.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsenate-house.
1. A house or building in which a senate meets.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > place of meeting
Parliament chamber1410
parliament house1440
senatoire1474
senatory1474
senate-house?1556
state house1608
senate1616
Thing-field1847
Thing-stead1847
?1556 N. Smyth tr. Herodian Hist. ii. f. 18 He wente too the Senate house.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. ii. 52 Wee'l send Mark Antony to the Senate house . View more context for this quotation
1637 J. Milton Comus 14 Musing meditation most affects The Pensive secrecie of desert cell..And sits as safe as in a Senat house.
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1641 (1955) II. 65 The Senat-house of this City [sc. Antwerp] is a very spacious and magnificent building.
1709 J. Addison 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.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 815 The Curia or senate-house.
in extended use.a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. vi. sig. S1v The senate house of the planets was at no time to set, for the decreeing of perfection in a man, as at that time all folkes skilful therin did acknowledge.1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles i. 53 The Seanate house of Planets all did sit. View more context for this quotationa1822 P. B. Shelley Prol. To Hellas in Relics (1862) 4 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.
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society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > assembly hall
Convocation-house1571
congregation-house1631
senate-house1748
1748 N. Salmon Foreigner's Compan. Cambr. & Oxf. i. 15 The Senate-House is a magnificent and elegant Building; the Length, 101 Feet, [etc.].
1769 T. Gray (title) Ode performed in the Senate-House at Cambridge.
1797 Cambr. 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.
1862 C. S. Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 43 Past the Senate-house I saunter.

Compounds

senate-house examination n. examination for degrees in Cambridge University; so .
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > university examinations
fellowship examination1787
collections1799
responsions1810
response1813
little go1816
great go1820
Previous Examination1824
school1826
smalls1836
senate-house examination1837
tripos1842
honours examination1851
biennial1853
great1854
moderations1857
Mods1858
professional1890
Trip1909
previous1950
1837 Math. Probl. fr. Senate-House Exam. Papers Pref. 7 Questions which have actually been set from time to time, at the Senate-House examinations.
senate-house examiner n.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > examiner > at universities
regentc1447
moderator1573
moderatrix1577
tripos1660
tripus1670
praeses1761
senate-house examiner1855
opposer1891
1855 Househ. Words 8 Dec. 442/2 He harassed me with questions about the book as pertinaciously as any senate-house examiner.
senate-house problem n. a mathematical problem proposed in a Senate-house examination.
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society > education > educational administration > examination > [noun] > question
senate-house problem1875
1875 A. Cayley Coll. Math. Papers (1896) IX. 246 A Senate-house Problem.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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