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consulate|ˈkɒnsjʊlət, -sələt|
[ad. L. consulāt-us, f. consul: see -ate1 1: so F. consulat.]
1. The government of Rome by consuls; the office, dignity, or position of the consuls.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 219 After þat tyme þe consulat of Rome lefte in þe Est. 1533Bellenden Livy iv. (1822) 315 Gif the Romane pepill has fre suffrage to gif the consulate quhare thay pleis. 1684Contempl. State Man i. ii. (1699) 20 Where is now the splendor of the Consulat? Where the Lictors and their Fasces? 1763Taylor in Phil. Trans. LIII. 134 And one of those consulates this stone alludes to. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) II. xviii. 332 The battle of Pharsalia was..the vindication of the senate and the consulate against rebels and traitors.
2. The consular government in France, and the period during which it existed (1799–1804).
1845D. F. Campbell (title) Thiers' History of the Consulate and the Empire of Napoleon.
†3. A body of consuls or officers so styled; a municipal council. Obs.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 527 All the offycers of the towne, with the consulat or rulers of the same.
4. The office or establishment of a modern commercial consul; also of a Cyclists' Club ‘consul’.
1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant xxxii. 121 The Vice-Consul..under the Consulate of Smyrna. 1848W. K. Kelly tr. L. Blanc's Hist. Ten Y. I. 257 The tricolour flag floating over the French consulate in Warsaw. 1865Maffei Brigand Life II. 138 The chancellerie of the Neapolitan consulate-general. 1870Anderson Missions Amer. Bd. IV. xxvii. 106 The lamented removal of..the English Consul, to a more desirable consulate in European Turkey.
5. attrib.
1882Prospectus Bicycle Touring Club, The B.T.C. consulate arrangements are composed of twenty-four districts. 1883Pall Mall G. 12 Sept. 8/1 All the consulate flags were hauled down by the Consuls. |