Contents -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.

Class V. Words Releasing to the Voluntary Powers
Division (I) Individual Volition
Section III. Voluntary Action
2. Complex Voluntary Action

696. Council.

   NOUN:COUNCIL, committee, subcommittee, comitia [Rom. hist.], privy council, court, chamber, cabinet, board, bench, staff.
  junta, divan, musnud, sanhedrin or sanhedrim [Jewish antiq.], amphictyonic council [Gr. hist.]; syndicate; court of appeal (tribunal) [See Tribunal]; board of -control, – works; county council, local board, parish council, common council, town meeting; board of overseers; zemstvo [Russ.].
  [ECCLESIASTICAL] convocation, synod, congregation, church, chapter, directory, vestry, consistory, conventicle, conclave, convention, classis.
  LEGISLATURE, parliament, congress, national council, states-general, diet.
  Duma [Russia], Storthing or Storting [Norway], Rigsdag [Denmark], Riksdag [Sweden], Cortes [Spain], Reichsrath or Reichsrat [Austria], Volksraad [Dutch]; Dail Eireann [Sinn Fein]; witan, witenagemot or witenagemote [Anglo-Saxon hist.].
  UPPER HOUSE, upper chamber, first chamber, senate, senatus [Rom. hist.], legislative council, House of Lords, House of Peers; Bundesrath or Bundesrat [Ger.], federal council, Lagting [Nor.], Landsthing [Den.].
  LOWER HOUSE, lower chamber, second chamber, house of representatives, House of Commons, the house, legislative assembly, chamber of deputies; Odelsting [Nor.], Folkething [Den.], Reichstag [Ger.].
  ASSEMBLY, plenum, caucus, clique; meeting, sitting, séance, camarilla [Sp.], conference, hearing, session, palaver, pourparler [F.], durbar [India]; quorum; council fire [N. Am.], powwow [U. S.].
  [REPRESENTATIVES] congressman, M. C., senator, representative; member, – of parliament, M. P.; representative of the people; assemblyman, councilor.
   ADJECTIVE:curule, congressional, senatorial, parliamentary; synodic or synodical.