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senatory

senatory noun: the office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.

Noun

senatory (plural senatories)

  1. The office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.
    • Made a Senator, he received the senatory of Aix. Another "Jacobin," the Senator Monge, was given the senatory of Liège. Démeunier exhibited signs of independence; he was given the senatory of Toulouse.1910, François-Alphonse Aulard, The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804. Translated from the French of the 3d Ed, page 253
    • The 1806 private "Agronomic travels in the senatory of Dijon" by Francois de Neufchateau (himself a former minister and president of the Society and hence no ordinary savant) had given way by 1813 to memoirs on cotton cultivation in France ...1984, Jean-Claude Perrot, Stuart Joseph Woolf, State and Statistics in France, 1789-1815, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 156

Adjective

senatory

  1. (obsolete) Senatorial.
    • […] than their publick good, which inclineth towards an Oligarchy, or the Government of the Richer or Nobler sort, as in Rome towards the […] Aristocracy, or Senatory state,1681, Walter Raleigh, Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice to his Son, etc, page 5
    • […] affirmed, that by senatory authority […]1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Drayton. Carew. Suckling, page 323

Forms of senatory

pluralsenatories

Origin of senatory

From senator + -y.

Questions about senatory

What does senatory mean?
Senatory means the office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.
What part of speech is senatory?
Senatory can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of senatory?
The plural of senatory is senatories.

Words near senatory in the dictionary

  1. senatorian
  2. senatories
  3. senators
  4. senatorship
  5. senatorships
  6. senatory
  7. senatour
  8. senatours
  9. senatress
  10. senatresses
  11. senatrices

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