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Word Meanings - COUNSELOR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

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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 or chief magistrate. Note: 3. One whose profession is to give advice in law, and manage causes for clients in court; a barrister. Good counselors lack no clients. Shak.

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  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • ADVISER
    One who advises.
  • APPOINTER
    One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
  • APPOINTMENT
    The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
  • 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
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • APPOINTOR
    The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
  • COUNCILMAN
    A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
  • APPOINTIVE
    Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office.
  • APPOINT
    To direct, designate, or limit; to make or direct a new disposition of, by virtue of a power contained in a conveyance; -- said of an estate already conveyed. Burrill. Kent. To appoint one's self, to resolve. Crowley. (more info) prepare,
  • MEMBERSHIP
    1. The state of being a member. 2. The collective body of members, as of a society.
  • TONGUED
    Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
  • TONGUE-TIED
    1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
  • ADVISEDLY
    1. Circumspectly; deliberately; leisurely. Shak. 2. With deliberate purpose; purposely; by design. "Advisedly undertaken." Suckling.
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • COUNSELORSHIP
    The function and rank or office of a counselor. Bacon.
  • 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.
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • ADVISEDNESS
    Deliberate consideration; prudent procedure; caution.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • MISADVISE
    To give bad counsel to.
  • MISREMEMBER
    To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly. Sir T. More.
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • REAPPOINT
    To appoint again.
  • 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;
  • LONG-TONGUE
    The wryneck.
  • NONMEMBERSHIP
    State of not being a member.
  • PREAPPOINTMENT
    Previous appointment.
  • REMEMBERABLE
    Capable or worthy of being remembered. -- Re*mem"ber*a*bly, adv. The whole vale of Keswick is so rememberable. Coleridge.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • FOREREMEMBERED
    Called to mind previously. Bp. Montagu.
  • 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

 

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