senatus consultum
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Within three days a senatus consultum was ready recommending the desired change to another plebiscite.
From A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) by Emerson, Edwin
One of the tribunes, without actually vetoing the senatus consultum, demanded a night for consideration.
From The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Shuckburgh, Evelyn S.
Moreover, nothing in Roman history indicates that to the validity of a senatus consultum it was necessary to count the vacant domains of the sacred territory.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus
Later, ratification was granted according to ancestral precedent to the resolution in question, and the latter obtained the name of senatus consultum.
From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin
The senatus consultum required for the apotheosis of an Emperor was not, so far as we know, obtained in the case of Antinous.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by Symonds, John Addington
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
