senatorian

English

Adjective

senatorian (not comparable)

  1. senatorial
    • 1826, Hector Davies Morgan, The doctrine and law of marriage, adultery, and divorce, page 219:
      If a man of senatorian rank should marry a woman of libertine condition, she would not be his wife while he retained his dignity, but she would nevertheless be in a condition to become his wife, if he should lose it.
    • 1832-1834, Thomas De Quincey, "The Caesars", in Blackwood's Magazine
      within the senatorian jurisdiction, these governors, with the title of Proconsuls, were to have no military power whatsoever

References

“senatorian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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