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noun

Council n.

1.

An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

2.

A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. "An old lord of the council rated me the other day."

3.

Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation. "Satan... void of rest, His potentates to council called by night." "O great in action and in council wise."

Aulic council. See under Aulic.

Cabinet council. See under Cabinet.

City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted.

Common council. See under Common.

Council board, Council table, the table round which a council holds consultation; also, the council itself in deliberation.

Council chamber, the room or apartment in which a council meets.

Council fire, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the Indians hold their councils. (U.S.)

Council of war, an assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to measures or importance or nesessity.

Ecumenical council (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline.

Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. (U.S.)

Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate.

Privy council. See under Privy. (Eng.)

Synonyms: Assembly; meeting; congress; diet; parliament; convention; convocation; synod.

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"Council board" Quotes from Famous Books

... him, his thoughts flew back to a pale and sad-faced little woman, sitting alone in an apartment up on the Riverside. It was to her that it all came back; it was for her that this terrible drama was being enacted. Montague could picture the grim, hawk-faced old man, sitting at the head of the council board, and laying down the law to the masters of the Metropolis. And this man's thoughts, too, went back to Lucy—his and Montague's alone, of all those who ...

— The Moneychangers • Upton Sinclair

... at the council board of the Catholic Hierarchy, the Government plied their task of seducing, dividing and misrepresenting bishops, priests, people and nation. Out of all the elements of disunion, distraction and disaster over which they in turn gloated, the British newspapers, with wonderful ...

— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny

... was frequent among owners in the seventeenth century, and operated to deter them from permitting the Christianizing of their slaves. "I may not forget a resolution which his Maty [James II.] made, and had a little before enter'd upon it at the Council Board, at Windsor or Whitehall, that the Negroes in the Plantations should all be baptiz'd, exceedingly declaiming against that impiety of their masters prohibiting it, out of a mistaken opinion that they would be ipso facto free; but his Maty persists in his resolution to have them chisten'd, ...

— Narrative of New Netherland • J. F. Jameson, Editor

... to be civil to anybody. But the coadjutor knew his character, and was delighted to have an opportunity of talking to him, when he could do so without being snubbed either by Mr. Somers, the chairman, or by his own parish priest. Mr. Creagh had rejoiced much at the idea of forming one at the same council board with county magistrates and Protestant parsons; but the fruition of his promised delights had never quite reached his lips. He had been like Sancho Panza in his government; he had sat down to the ...

— Castle Richmond • Anthony Trollope

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