senatorian, a. (and n.)
(sɛnəˈtɔərɪən)
[f. L. senātōri-us (see prec.) + -an. Cf. OF. senatorien (Godef.), mod.F. sénatorien (1690 in Hatz.-Darm.).]
A. adj.
1. Of or pertaining to a senator; = senatorial a. 1. Now chiefly as applied to the senatorial order of ancient Rome, its members, their privileges, etc.
| 1614 Gorges Lucan v. 167 The Senatorian ordred state Is neuer chang'd by place or date. Ibid., That great Senatorian traine. 1629 Maxwell Herodian 74 Yet was he far exceeded in Birth by many of the Senatorian Order. 1665 Manley Grotius' Law C. Wars 940 Janinus, having setled himself into a Senatorian Gravity, began thus to speak. 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. xxxi. III. 199 The dignity of the senatorian rank. 1830 J. H. Monk Bentley (1833) II. 327 This distinguished prelate had already displayed his senatorian talents in the discussion on the Pension Bill, and other occasions. 1880 R. Owen Sanctorale Cathol. 12 Mar. 136 He was of a high senatorian family at Rome. |
2. = senatorial a. 2.
| 1842 G. Long in Smith's Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq. 801/1 The Senatorian provinces. |
B. n. ? nonce-use. A partisan of the senate.
| 1869 Seeley Ess. & Lect. (1870) 21 [Augustus] began as a professed Senatorian;..he became ultimately emperor. |