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Result :: Result (n.) The decision or determination of a council or deliberative assembly; a resolve; a decree.

Senator :: Senator (n.) A member of the king's council; a king's councilor.

Secretary :: Secretary (n.) An officer of state whose business is to superintend and manage the affairs of a particular department of government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to the relations of a government with foreign courts; the secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of finance; the secretary of war, etc..

Amphictyony :: Amphictyony (n.) A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain the common interests of Greece.

Senate :: Senate (n.) In some American colleges, a council of elected students, presided over by the president of the college, to which are referred cases of discipline and matters of general concern affecting the students..

Heterodox :: Heterodox (a.) Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council, and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines, books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects..

Conciliabule :: Conciliabule (n.) An obscure ecclesiastical council; a conciliable.

Act :: Act (n.) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress..

Decree :: Decree (n.) An edict or law made by a council for regulating any business within their jurisdiction; as, the decrees of ecclesiastical councils..

Representative :: Representative (a.) Bearing the character or power of another; acting for another or others; as, a council representative of the people..

Promulgate :: Promulgate (v. t.) To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, or tidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council..

Placet :: Placet (n.) A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, of an ecclesiastical council, etc..

Councilman :: Councilman (n.) A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor..

Moot-hill :: Moot-hill (n.) A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; -- called, in Scotland, mute-hill..

Nicene :: Nicene (a.) Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenial council held there A. D. 325..

Junto :: "Junto (n.) A secret council to deliberate on affairs of government or politics; a number of men combined for party intrigue; a faction; a cabal; as, a junto of ministers; a junto of politicians..

Pylagore :: Pylagore (n.) a deputy of a State at the Amphictyonic council.

Councilist :: Councilist (n.) One who belong to a council; one who gives an opinion.

Senate :: Senate (n.) An assembly or council having the highest deliberative and legislative functions.

Protestant :: Protestant (v.) One who protests; -- originally applied to those who adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church..

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