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Consultation   /kˌɑnsəltˈeɪʃən/   Listen
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Consultation  n.  
1.
The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. "Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended."
2.
A council or conference, as of physicians, held to consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a cause.
Writ of consultation (Law), a writ by which a cause, improperly removed by prohibition from one court to another, is returned to the court from which it came; so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded.






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"Consultation" Quotes from Famous Books



... from all visitors save such as had official sanction. Consequently, the two remained quite uninterrupted while they moved about the place in quiet consultation. Others had preceded them; had examined the plain little desk and found nothing; had paced off the distances; had looked with longing and inquiring eyes at the elevator cage and the open archway leading to the little staircase and the ...
— Initials Only • Anna Katharine Green

... they be of, take upon hand in onie times hereafter to use onie manner of witchcraft, sorcerie, or necromancie, nor give themselves forth to have onie such craft or knowledge thereof, their-throw abusan the people; nor that onie persone seek onie help, response, or consultation at onie such users or abusers foresaid, of witchcraft, sorcerie, or necromancie, under the pain of death, as well to be execute against the user, abuser, as the seeker of the response or consultation. And this is to ...
— Chronicles of Strathearn • Various

... A consultation was now held as to our future course. The lawyers and Roche proposed to go farther south, and make another attempt, but recollecting, that on the morning of the preceding day we had passed a large, though shallow, sandy stream, Gabriel and I thought it more ...
— Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet • Captain Marryat

... details of the orphans, and the consultation over them seemed to be prolonged by her because, even now, she could not resolve to go below the surface. It lasted until her father came to ask whether she were ready to go with him to Mrs. Poynsett's ...
— The Three Brides • Charlotte M. Yonge

... about midnight from the south-east, catching us most completely on a lee-shore. We had made but little offing, and every minute the wind increased, and we, I saw, were drifting closer and closer onto the coast of Long Island. Captain Hudson, Mr Willis, and Mr Flood, the master, were in earnest consultation. ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston


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