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consultation|kɒnsʌlˈteɪʃən|
[a. F. consultation, or ad. L. consultātiōn-em, n. of action f. consultāre to consult.]
1. a. The action of consulting or taking counsel together; deliberation, conference.
1548Hall Chron. 246 b, After long consultation had. a1600Hooker Eccl. Pol. vii. xxiv. §6 If bishops did often use..the help of mutual consultation. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. vii. §13. 119 There must be certain set times and places for deliberation and consultation of affaires. 1691Ray Creation (1714) 128 It is plain enough that Brutes are not above consultation but below it. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 342 My advice in consultation given.
b. The matter or plan deliberated on.
1663Pepys Diary 17 Mar., Their design and consultation was..how to proceed with the most solemnity.
2. (with a and pl.)
a. A conference in which the parties consult and deliberate; a meeting for deliberation or discussion.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. v. 2 Wyth syndry consultatyownys. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 11 To guide and direct them in their consultations of future things. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxii. 120 Every member of the Body may be present at the consultations, if he will. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 194 ⁋2 By frequent consultations with his dancing-master. 1832H. 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.
1882W. Ballantine Exper. Barrister's Life (ed. 3) II. 99 In a consultation that gentleman admitted his guilt to the counsel. 1883Wharton's Law-Lex. (ed. 7) 189/2 Consultation... Also a meeting of two or more counsel and the solicitor instructing them for deliberating or advising. 1906Ann. 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. Med.
1800Duncan Annals of Med. V. 493 Mr. Benjamin Bell still persists in his intention of publishing his consultations and observations on various important points in Surgery. 1806Abernethy Surg. Observ. II. 12 The next day the patient requested to see me in consultation. 1882Syd. Soc. Lex., 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).
1751Johnson Rambler No. 87 ⁋12 By the consultation of books..temptations to petulance are avoided.
4. Law. (See quots.)
1548Act 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. 1641Termes de la Ley 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. 1809Tomlins Law Dict. s.v., 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.
5. attrib. consultation table, council-table.
1829Bengallee 337 There was a large marble consultation table in the centre of the room. c1832Lives Brit. Physicians 245 He had retired from all but consultation practice. |