senatory

English

Etymology

From senator +‎ -y.

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.
   • 1910, François-Alphonse Aulard, The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804. Translated from the French of the 3d Ed, page 253:

     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.

   • 1984, Jean-Claude Perrot, Stuart Joseph Woolf, State and Statistics in France, 1789-1815, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 156:

     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 ...

   • 1994, Eric Anderson Arnold, A Documentary Survey of Napoleonic France, University Press of Amer

     On Senatories

     1) There will be a Senatory for each district of the Court of Appeals.

     2) Each Senatory will be endowed with a house and an annual income, drawn from the national domain, of 20,000 to 25,000 francs.

Adjective

senatory

1. (obsolete) Senatorial.
   • 1681, Walter Raleigh, Remains of Sir Walter Raleigh; viz. Maxims of State. Advice to his Son, etc, page 5:

     […] 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,

   • 1793, A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Drayton. Carew. Suckling, page 323:

     […] affirmed, that by senatory authority […]

   • 1809, John Gill, An Exposition of the New Testament, etc, page 345:

     The name is a Latin one, and is often a person of figure at Rome, and of the senatory order, I mentioned by Martial the poet.