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consular, a. and n.|ˈkɒnsjʊlə(r)|
Also 4–5 -er, 6 -are.
[ad. L. consulār-is, f. consul: see -ar. Cf. F. consulaire of 14th c.]
A. adj.
1. Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of the Roman consuls, or (in recent history) the French consulate of 1799–1804.
1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 320 Thay concludit to mak tribunis militare, with power consulare. 1636E. Dacres tr. Machiavel's Disc. I. 75 The Romans..made use of them in their Consular assemblies. 1705Hearne Collect. 2 Sept. I. 39 He has not many Consular [Coyns]. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. I. xii. 244 He had twice been invested with the consular dignity. 1870Emerson Plutarch Wks. (Bohn) III. 340 Having received from Trajan the consular dignity.
b. (See quot.)
1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 67 The consular case took the place of the pair cases in very old watches, and was so named in honour of Napoleon Bonaparte, at that time Consul of France.
2. Of or belonging to a consul in a foreign port.
1841W. Spalding Italy & It. Isl. II. 271 The consular tribunal was abolished..the duties on merchandise..were increased. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 31 To pay a consular fee. 1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 53 We have consuls, or inferior consular officers at all the principal ports.
B. n. A man of consular rank; esp. under the Roman republic, an ex-consul, and, under the empire, a legate sent as governor of a province.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. vi. 51 Þilke dignitee þat men clepiþ þe emperie of consulers. 1545Joye Exp. Dan., Brief Supput. (R.), Juli Cesar first being consular and eft sone the first emprowr of Rome. 1741Middleton Cicero (ed. 3) I. iv. 242 That venerable bench of Consulars, who were justly reckoned the first Citizens of the Republic. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xxxvii. 269 To unite her with some noble consular. |