单词 | council-board |
释义 | council-boardn. The board or table at which the members of a council sit; hence, the council in session, the assembled body of councillors. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > assembled body council-board1598 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iv. iii. 101 [He] Rated mine vnkle from the counsell boord. a1601 W. Lambarde Archion (1635) 135 To have his Causes determined..at the Councell-board without open hearing. 1694 Ld. Delamere Wks. 40 Attendance at the Council-Board. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 90 Acquainting the Council-Board..with the Indignities he had Sustain'd. 1841 T. B. Macaulay Warren Hastings in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 251 He landed from India.. . He had then looked forward to..a seat at the Council Board, an office at Whitehall. 1866 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. IX. x. 170 The president..had no higher functions than those of the president of a council-board. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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