Word Meanings - COUNCILOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A member of a council. Note: The distinction between councilor, a member of a council, and counselor, one who gives councel, was not formerly made, but is now very generally recognized and observed.

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• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• GIVES
  Fetters.
• OBSERVANCY
  Observance.
• RECOGNIZOR; RECOGNISOR
  One who enters into a recognizance. Blackstone.
• OBSERVANTLY
  In an observant manner.
• COUNSELOR
  conseiler, F. conseiller, fr. L. consiliarius, fr. consilium 1. One who counsels; an adviser. Can he that speaks with the tongue of an enemy be a good counselor, or no Shak. 2. A member of council; one appointed to advise a sovereign
• OBSERVANTINE
  One of a branch of the Order of Franciscans, who profess to adhere more strictly than the Conventuals to the intention of the founder, especially as to poverty; -- called also Observants.
• COUNCILMAN
  A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
• DISTINCTION
  1. A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. The distinction of tragedy into acts was not known. Dryden. 2. The act of distinguishing or denoting the differences between objects, or the qualities by which one is known from
• MEMBERSHIP
  1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
• RECOGNIZER
  One who recognizes; a recognizor.
• OBSERVATIVE
  Observing; watchful.
• OBSERVATION CAR
  A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.
• OBSERVING
  Giving particular attention; habitually attentive to what passes; as, an observing person; an observing mind. -- Ob*serv"ing*ly, adv.
• COUNSELORSHIP
  The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
• GENERALLY
  1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a
• COUNCILOR
  A member of a council. Note: The distinction between councilor, a member of a council, and counselor, one who gives councel, was not formerly made, but is now very generally recognized and observed.
• RECOGNIZANCE
  recognoissant, p. pr. of recognoistre to recognize, F. reconnaître, fr. L. recognoscere; pref. re- re- + cognoscere to know. See An obligation of record entered into before some court of record or magistrate duly authorized, with condition to
• OBSERVER
  1. One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer. The observed of all observers. Shak. Careful observers may foretell the hour, By
• MISREMEMBER
  To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• REMEMBER
  re- + memorare to bring to remembrance, from memor mindful. See 1. To have come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect;
• NONMEMBERSHIP
  State of not being a member.
• REMEMBERABLE
  Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
• FOREREMEMBERED
  Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
• PRECOGNIZABLE
  Cognizable beforehand.
• DISMEMBER
  1. To tear limb from limb; to dilacerate; to disjoin member from member; to tear or cut in pieces; to break up. Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. By whose hands the blow should be struck
• MISOBSERVER
  One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
• INOBSERVATION
  Neglect or want of observation.