Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, concerning, or befitting a senator or senate.
- adjective Composed of senators.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to a senate or senators; appropriate to a senator; consisting of senators: as, a senatorial robe; senatorial eloquence.
- [capitalized] Entitled to elect a Senator: as, a Senatorial district.
- Controlled by a senate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a senator, or a senate; becoming to a senator, or a senate.
- adjective United States Entitled to elect a senator, or by senators.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Relating to a
senator . - adjective Relating to a
senate . - adjective US Entitled to
elect a senator, or by senators.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to senators
Etymologies
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Examples
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Side note: If the tables were turned and McGavick had a larger war chest than Cantwell we'd be bombarded with cries of "Big Money!" and schemes to reduce/eliminate financial support in senatorial races too.
Sound Politics: Suppression of dissent in Mrs. Gregoire's Amerikkka 2006
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dare i wonder what the fuss would be about if the short term senatorial nominations were made by republican governors?
Russ Feingold's proposed constitutional amendment. Ann Althouse 2009
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dare i wonder what the fuss would be about if the short term senatorial nominations were made by republican governors?
Russ Feingold's proposed constitutional amendment. Ann Althouse 2009
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By 1913, more than half of the states had already adopted mechanisms that effectively bound state legislators to the voters’ choice, and it’s hard to imagine their 21st century counterparts ignoring the people’s will in senatorial selection.
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Yet, funny, but they produce a Governor Jesse Ventura and can't extricate themselves from the continuing farce with Al Franken, known as their senatorial race.
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Franken is a nice guy, but not what I'd call senatorial material.
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Franken is a nice guy, but not what I'd call senatorial material.
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The Herald article quotes McGavick attacking his party organization for publicizing Stefan's work on Dotzauer's divorce: "I immediately had our campaign call the senatorial committee and tell them to knock it off, and I've already received an apology from them," he said.
Sound Politics: Cantwell divorce file resealed by court, yet to be explored by mainstream press 2006
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Then from that group, 4,000 will qualify for what are called senatorial or congressional nominations.
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He had for many years been a department subordinate at Washington; but, having accumulated some money, he had donned what was then known as senatorial costume -- namely, a blue swallow-tailed coat, and a buff vest, with brass buttons -- and coming to this little Michigan town he had established a Whig paper, which afterward became Republican.
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