Emily Dickinson Lexicon

CON-SULT-A'TION, n.

1. The act of consulting; deliberation of two or more persons, with a view to some decision. The chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes. – Mark xv.
2. The persons who consult together; a number of persons seeking mutually each other's opinions and advice; a council for deliberation; as, a consultation of physicians was called. – Wiseman. Writ of consultation, in law, a writ awarded by a superior court, to return a cause which had been removed by prohibition from the court Christian, to its original jurisdiction; so called because the judges on consultation find the prohibition ill founded. – Blackstone.