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Executive council   /ɪgzˈɛkjətɪv kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
noun
Council  n.  
1.
An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.
2.
A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council. "An old lord of the council rated me the other day."
3.
Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation. "Satan... void of rest, His potentates to council called by night." "O great in action and in council wise."
Aulic council. See under Aulic.
Cabinet council. See under Cabinet.
City council, the legislative branch of a city government, usually consisting of a board of aldermen and common council, but sometimes otherwise constituted.
Common council. See under Common.
Council board, Council table, the table round which a council holds consultation; also, the council itself in deliberation.
Council chamber, the room or apartment in which a council meets.
Council fire, the ceremonial fire kept burning while the Indians hold their councils. (U.S.)
Council of war, an assembly of officers of high rank, called to consult with the commander in chief in regard to measures or importance or nesessity.
Ecumenical council (Eccl.), an assembly of prelates or divines convened from the whole body of the church to regulate matters of doctrine or discipline.
Executive council, a body of men elected as advisers of the chief magistrate, whether of a State or the nation. (U.S.)
Legislative council, the upper house of a legislature, usually called the senate.
Privy council. See under Privy. (Eng.)
Synonyms: Assembly; meeting; congress; diet; parliament; convention; convocation; synod.





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"Executive council" Quotes from Famous Books



... permanent delegates (French Prefect Pierre STEINMETZ for the department of Pyrenees-Orientales, since NA, and Spanish Vicar General Nemesi MARQUES Oste for the Seo de Urgel diocese, since NA) head of government: Executive Council President Marc FORNE (since 21 December 1994) elected by Parliament, following resignation of Oscar RIBAS Reig cabinet: Executive Council; designated by ...
— The 1995 CIA World Factbook • United States Central Intelligence Agency
... Augusta's friend, John Horn, the senior Bishop of the Church, for the purpose of electing some new Bishops, Augusta rose to address the assembly. He spoke in the name of the younger clergy, and immediately commenced an attack upon the old Executive Council. He accused them of listlessness and sloth; he said that they could not understand the spirit of the age, and he ended his speech by proposing himself and four other broad-minded men as members of the Council. The old men were shocked; the ...
— History of the Moravian Church • J. E. Hutton
... for the purpose of making a last and determined effort to destroy the mines. Being a great friend of the Krauses, he was invited to stay at their house. In a burst of confidence he produced a letter signed by a very high-placed official of the Executive Council, whereby he was empowered, in indefinite terms, to call for the co-operation of any military official whom he pleased. He showed Dr. Krause this letter and requested him to instruct the mine police and certain other ...
— The Petticoat Commando - Boer Women in Secret Service • Johanna Brandt
... Committee for Foreign Affairs and twenty-two members of the Assembly. The "Rump" then met, protected by a strong body of troops, and declared itself a Constituent Assembly representing the Batavian people. After the French model, an Executive Council was nominated, consisting of five members, Vreede, Fijnje, Fokker, Wildrik and Van Langen, and a new Commission of Seven to frame a Constitution. The "Regulation" was rejected; and the Assembly solemnly proclaimed ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson
... was made Private Secretary to Mr. Edwards and a member of the Executive Council. I still had a desire to make further improvement, and in the summer of 1911, I attended Comer's Commercial College in Boston, Mass., trying to become more efficient in the work that was assigned to my hands. Principal Edwards ...
— Twenty-Five Years in the Black Belt • William James Edwards
... to instruct this committee to report on the expediency of abolishing the office of President, and in lieu thereof establishing an Executive Council of three, elected by districts composed of contiguous States—each member armed with a veto power; and he also proposed to restore the equilibrium of the States by dividing slave States ...
— Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 • Joseph Warren Keifer
... legislative, and the only share it takes in the judicial power is in the impeachment of public officers. The senate co-operates in the work of legislation, and tries those political offences which the house of representatives submits to its decision. It also acts as the great executive council of the nation; the treaties which are concluded by the president must be ratified by the senate; and the appointments he may make must be definitively approved ...
— American Institutions and Their Influence • Alexis de Tocqueville et al
... regarded as the portrait-host among the shadowy figures gathered there, its subject being Colonel Benjamin Harrison. He was friend and college roommate of Thomas Jefferson, and a member of the first State Executive Council in 1776. Against the dense background is shown a slender gentleman of the old school, with an intellectual, ...
— Virginia: The Old Dominion • Frank W. Hutchins and Cortelle Hutchins
... the fair chatelaine of this castle: a year and a half after the date inscribed upon her title-deeds the republic claimed the traitor's possessions, and pretty Peggy was driven forth by the Executive Council to find a home with strangers, but fourteen days being granted her in which to prepare for her doleful journey. Our excellent forefathers were made of stern stuff to suit the humor of those trying times, and doubtless they did but their duty in ridding their country of the "traitor's ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVII. No. 101. May, 1876. • Various


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