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A senator; a counselor. [Obs.] Many of the consuls, raised and met, Are at the duke's already. Shak. With kings and consuls of the earth. Job. iii. 14 (Douay Ver. )

A duty or tax paid by merchants for the protection of their connerce by means of a consul in a foreign place.

Of or pertaining to a consul; performing the duties of a consul; as, consular power; consular dignity; consular officers.

Consular. [Obs.] Holland.

The office of a consul. Addison.

The office of a consul; consulate.

e opinion or advice of another; to take consel; to deliberate together; to confer. Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. Shak. All the laws of England have been made by the kings England, consulting with the nobility and commons. Hobbes.

Formed by consultation; resulting from conference. Consultary response (Law), the opinion of a court on a special case. Wharton.

The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision. Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.

Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference. "A consultative . . . power." Abp. Bramhall.

Formed by, or resulting from, consultation; advisory. Bancroft.

One who consults, or asks counsel or information.

That consults. Consulting physician (Med.), a physician who consults with the attending practitioner regarding any case of disease.

Determined by, or pertaining to, consultation; deliberate; consultative. He that remains in the grace of God sins not by any deliberative, consultive, knowing act. Jer. Taylor.

A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.

An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without being himself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, a province. He was usually one who had previously been consul.

Of or pertaining of a proconsul; as, proconsular powers.

The office jurisdiction of a proconsul, or the term of his office.

Proconsulate.

A decree of the Roman senate.