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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.

A decree of the Roman senate.

ches or to reconnoiter; a dispatch boat. -- To take advice. (a) To accept advice. (b) To consult with another or others.

To take counsel; to consult; -- followed by with; as, to advise with friends.

Consideration; deliberation; consultation. Tempering the passion with advisement slow. Spenser.

A private room in which consultations are held. Philip passed some hours every day in his father's cabinet. Prescott.

One who consults a legal adviser, or submits his cause to his management.

A memorandum; something to be frequently consulted or referred to. Whatever, in my reading, occurs concerning this our fellow creature, I do never fail to set it down by way of commonplace. Swift. Commonplace book, a book in which records are made of things to be remembered.

To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation. It was concerted to begin the siege in March. Bp. Burnet.

To have discourse; to consult; to compare views; to deliberate. Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered. Acts xxv. 12. You shall hear us confer of this. Shak.

The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views. Nor with such free and friendly conference As he hath used of old. Shak.

An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.