senatorian
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]senatorian (not comparable)
- 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
[edit]“senatorian”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.