单词 | senate-house |
释义 | senate-housen. 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. 2. spec. The building which serves for the meetings of the senate of a university, esp. of Cambridge. ΘΚΠ 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 . ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.?1556 |
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