senatorship

[Eng. senator; -ship.] The office, dignity, or position of a senator. sen-ā-tus, s. [Lat.) (SENATE.] *1. A senate. "After this, he made a hundred counsellors of the best and honestes men of the city, which he called patricians; and the whole company of them together he called senatas, as one would say, the Councel of the Ancients."North: Plutarch , p. 21. 2. The senate or governing body of a university. senatus-academic us, s . One of the governing bodies in Scotch universities, consisting of the prin cipal and profe ors, and charged with the superintendence and regulation of discipline, the admin is tration of the university property and revenues, subject to the control and review of the university court, and the conferring of degrees through the chancellor or vice-chancellor.