ˈcouncil-board
The board or table at which the members of a council sit; hence, the council in session, the assembled body of councillors.
| 1591 Lambarde Archeion (1635) 116 To have his Causes determined..at the Councell-board without open hearing. 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iv. iii. 99 [He] rated my Vnckle from the Councell-Boord. 1647 Clarendon Hist. Reb. ii. (1843) 46/1 Acquainting his council-board..with the indignities he had sustained. a 1693 Ld. Delamere Wks. (1694) 40 Attendance at the Council-Board. 1841 Macaulay W. Hastings Ess. 1854 II. 655/2 When he landed from India..he had..looked forward to..a seat at the Council Board, an office at Whitehall. 1876 Bancroft Hist. U.S. V. x. 437 The president..had no higher functions than those of the president of a council-board. |