Noah Webster
Consultation
CONSULTATION, noun
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 15:1.
2. The persons who consult together; a number of persons seeking mutually each others opinions and advice; a council for deliberation; as, a consultation of physicians was called.
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.