Definition of "senate-house" [senate-house]

• A house in which a senate meets, or a place of public council. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "In this case the offending passages were added after the senate-house committee that reconciles the two versions of the bill finished their work."
• "His felicity seemed to culminate in the year 522 A.D., when, by special and extraordinary favour, his two sons, young as they were for so exalted an honour, were created joint Consuls and rode to the senate-house attended by a throng of senators, and the acclamations of the multitude."
• "Then having pursued them into the space between the senate-house, the temple of Hestia, and the theatre thereto adjoining, they still kept up the fighting as fiercely as ever, pushing the retreating foe towards the great altar."