单词 | committee of council |
释义 | > as lemmasCommittee of Council a. A body of men chosen or designated as permanent advisers on matters of state, esp. to advise and assist a sovereign or ruler in the administration of the government. In English History chiefly applied to the King's privy council n. II., in which sense it is still used in the Committee of Council on Education, and for the Channel Islands; also in Orders in Council. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > council of state > [noun] hustinga1030 Great Councilc1275 council1297 parliamentc1300 privy councilc1390 divan1586 Council of State1611 legislative council1651 α. β. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Dan. iii. D Then Nabuchodonosor..spake vnto his councel and sayde.1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor i. i. 31 The Councell shall know it.1653 J. Milton Let. 21 Feb. in A. Marvell Wks. (1872) I. xxxvii If..the Councell shall think that I shall need any assistance.1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 222 The principal council belonging to the king is his privy council, which is generally called, by way of eminence, the council.1785 (title) Report of the Lords of the Committee of Council..upon the Two Questions referred to them by his Majesty's Order in Council of the 14th of January last.1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. iii. 122 The King and his Witan acted together..;they were no external, half-hostile, body, but his own Council.1892 (title) Annual Report of the Committee of Council on Education.1292 Britton i. Prol. 2 Par le assent de nos Countes et Barouns et autres de noster conseyl.] 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 77 Þo þe conseil of Rome y leuede ys faire bi hest. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 514 Neiþer þe kyng ne his counsayl deede unriȝtfully. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxv. 115 He schall schew it to þe emperour, or to his counsail. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) v. 480 His consell [1489 Adv. consaile] he assemblit then. 1546 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 51 The lorde chaunsler with the dewke of Norfoke and other of the cownsell. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Conseil The principall Secretaries who euer attend his Maiestie in this Counsell. < as lemmas |
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