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The office of, or landed estate granted to, a senator, especially in France under the consulate and First French Empire.
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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.
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
Senatorial.
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[…] 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,
[…] affirmed, that by senatory authority […]
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.