court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.
senate, senatus [Lat.], parliament, chamber of deputies,
directory, reichsrath [G.], rigsdag, cortes [Sp.], storthing†,
witenagemote†, junta, divan, musnud†, sanhedrim; classis†; Amphictyonic
council†; duma [Rus.], house of representatives; legislative assembly,
legislative council; riksdag†, volksraad [G.], witan†, caput†,
consistory, chapter, syndicate; court of appeal &c (tribunal) 966;
board of control, board of works; vestry; county council, local board.
audience chamber, council chamber, state chamber.
cabinet council, privy council; cockpit, convocation, synod,
congress, convention, diet, states-general.
[formal gathering of members of a council: script] assembly,
caucus, conclave, clique, conventicle; meeting, sitting, seance,
conference, convention, exhibition, session, palaver, pourparler,
durbar†, house; quorum; council fire [U.S.], powwow [U.S.], primary
[U.S.].
meeting, assemblage &c 72.
[person who is member of a council] member; senator; member of
parliament, M.P.; councilor, representative of the people; assemblyman,
congressman; councilman, councilwoman, alderman, freeholder.
V. assemble, gather together, meet (assemblage) 72; confer, caucus,
hold council; huddle [Coll.].
Adj. senatorial, curule†; congressional, parliamentary; legislative,
law-making; regulatory; deliberative.