consultationn.
/kɒnsʌlˈteɪʃən/ 1.
a. The action of consulting or taking counsel together; deliberation, conference.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > counsel or consultation
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counsel?c1225
advisement1414
counselment1523
consultation1548
consult1560
advice1621
consulting1823
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting
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consultation1548
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parliamenting1582
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1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxlviv After long consultation had.
a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie vii. xxiv, in Wks. (1662) 67 If Bishops did often use..the help of mutual consultation.
1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. vii. §13. 119 There must be certain set times and places for deliberation and consultation of affaires.
1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 96 It is plain enough, that Brutes are not above Consultation but below it.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. i. 342 My advice in consultation given.
b. The matter or plan deliberated on.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > topic, subject-matter > materials of topic > [noun] > of debate or discussion
proposec1350
purposec1350
propositiona1382
problema1387
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state of the causea1525
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disquisition1605
problem1645
consultation1663
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issue1836
chat1861
debating point1927
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1663 S. Pepys Diary 17 Mar. (1971) IV. 76 Their design and consultation was..how to proceed with the most solemnity.
2. (with a and plural)
a. A conference in which the parties consult and deliberate; a meeting for deliberation or discussion.
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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > counsel or consultation > meeting or session
consultationc1425
consult1600
surgery1973
the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference
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parliamentc1325
consultationc1425
interview1514
view1520
talk1551
parle1552
colloquy1570
parley?a1580
enterparle1584
interparley1590
conference1592
enterparley1594
enterparlance1595
consult1600
antiparle1602
deliberation1632
consulto1659
conversation1703
palaver1735
consulta1768
korero1807
powwow1812
council-general1817
concilium1834
talk-in1966
think-in1966
c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. v. 2 Wyth syndry consultatyownys.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 11 To guide and direct them in their consultations of future things.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxii. 120 Every member of the Body may be present at the consultations, if he will.
1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 194. ⁋2 By frequent consultations with his dancing-master.
1832 H. Martineau Life in Wilds ii. 30 They had arranged the time and place for a general consultation.
b. Law. ‘A meeting for deliberating or advising with counsel’ (Wharton). In present legal usage confined to meetings with more than one counsel present.
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society > law > legal profession > [noun] > conference or consultation
conference1877
consultation1882
1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life (ed. 3) II. 99 In a consultation that gentleman admitted his guilt to the counsel.
1883 Wharton's Law-lexicon (ed. 7) 189/2 Consultation... Also a meeting of two or more counsel and the solicitor instructing them for deliberating or advising.
1906 Ann. Practice II. 211 The following fees are allowed to counsel's clerks... On consultations, senior's clerk..0 5 0. On consultations, junior's clerk..0 2 6.
c. Medicine.
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the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > practice of healing art > [noun] > meeting of doctors
consultation1801
1801 Ann. Med. 5 493 Mr. Benjamin Bell still persists in his intention of publishing his consultations and observations on various important points in Surgery.
1806 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. Pt. 2nd 12 The next day the patient requested to see me in consultation.
1882 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Consultation..was anciently explained as signifying that office of the physician by which the unlearned are instructed by the learned..The term..is now applied to a consideration of, and deliberation on, by one or more medical practitioners, the condition of a sick person.
3. The action of consulting or referring to (a book).
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > research > [noun] > consultation of books, etc.
index-hunting1699
consultation1751
reference1774
lookup1948
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 87. ⁋12 By the consultation of books..temptations to petulance are avoided.
4. Law. (See quots.)
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1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI, c. 13. §14 (Ruffhead) The Party that is..hindred of his..Suit in the Ecclesiastical Court by such Prohibition, shall have a Consultation granted in the same Case by the Court where the said Prohibition was granted.
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 79 Consultation is a writ whereby a cause being formerly removed by prohibition, out of the Ecclesiasticall Court or Court Christian, to the Kings Court, is returned thither againe.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. (at cited word) This writ is in nature of a procedendo; but properly a consultation ought not to be granted, but in case where a man cannot recover at the Common Law.
Compounds
attributive. consultation table n. council-table.
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1829 H. B. Henderson Bengalee 337 There was a large marble consultation table in the centre of the room.
c1832 Lives Brit. Physicians 245 He had retired from all but consultation practice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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