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单词 senatorial
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senatorialadj.

/sɛnəˈtɔːrɪəl/
Etymology: < Latin senātōrius ( < senātōr-em senator n.) + -al suffix1. Compare French sénatorial (1727 in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter).
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.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > other national governing or legislative bodies > [adjective] > relating to senators (ancient world)
senatory1534
senatorian1614
senatorial1791
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. x. 490 Hector, with all the Senatorial Chiefs [x. 414 ὅσοι βουληϕόροι εἰσί].
1842 W. Smith Dict. Greek & 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.
1850 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire I. ii. 59 Whole cities and states sometimes put themselves under the protection of a senatorial patron.
1858 T. De Quincey Aelius Lamia in Select. Grave & Gay X. 306 A Roman noble, a man..of senatorial rank.
b. With reference to modern senates.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [adjective]
parliamental1570
comitial1604
parliamentary1626
senatical1651
senatorial1742
parliamentarian1882
1742 S. Johnson Deb. Senate Lilliput in Gentleman's Mag. May 239 The Authority which can be conferr'd only by Senatorial Sanctions.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. ii. 175 Not as at Venice, and many other senatorial assemblies.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Watchman No. i. 20 The attack on the Duke of Bedford, for enjoying the senatorial office by hereditary right.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. ii. 15 He eschewed honours senatorial.
1897 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 145 The senatorial leader.
2. Of a Roman province under the Empire: Administered by the senate (not by the emperor).
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > territory under a governor or official > [adjective] > Roman province under types of governor
proconsular1610
presidiala1654
proconsulary1728
senatorial1841
senatorian1842
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 102 Into those provinces which were senatorial, the senate continued to send pro-consuls or prætors as Governors.
1879 F. W. Farrar Life & Work St. Paul I. vi. xxiv. 475 Bithynia, [was] at that time a senatorial province.
3. U.S. ‘Entitled to elect a Senator: as, a Senatorial district’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891).
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1785 T. 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.
1864 Harper's Mag. Mar. 568/2 Mrs X——..resides in our senatorial district.
1948 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Okla.) 23 July 14/6 This Senatorial district of Carter county is the birthplace and home of Joe.

Derivatives

senaˈtorially adv. in a senatorial manner.
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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [adverb]
senatorially1754
society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [adverb] > in manner of member of
senatorially1754
1754 A. Drummond Travels i. 17 The mother was chearful; the father senatorially grave.
1821 Examiner 83/1 Whatever may be thought senatorially of the modest assertion,..the people at large may laugh at it.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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