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ˈcouncil-board
The board or table at which the members of a council sit; hence, the council in session, the assembled body of councillors.
1591Lambarde Archeion (1635) 116 To have his Causes determined..at the Councell-board without open hearing. 1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 99 [He] rated my Vnckle from the Councell-Boord. 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. (1843) 46/1 Acquainting his council-board..with the indignities he had sustained. a1693Ld. Delamere Wks. (1694) 40 Attendance at the Council-Board. 1841Macaulay W. Hastings Ess. 1854 II. 655/2 When he landed from India..he had..looked forward to..a seat at the Council Board, an office at Whitehall. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. x. 437 The president..had no higher functions than those of the president of a council-board. |