Hypertext Webster Gateway: "consultation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Consultation \Con`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. consultatio: cf. F.
consultation.]
1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two
or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.
Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.
--Milton.
2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to
consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a
cause.
{Writ of consultation} (Law), a writ by which a cause,
improperly removed by prohibition from one court to
another, is returned to the court from which it came; --
so called because the judges, on consultation, find the
prohibition ill-founded.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
consultation
n 1: a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a
consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience
with the king" [syn: {audience}, {interview}]
2: a conference between two or more people to consider a
particular question; "frequent consultations with his
lawyer"; "a consultation of several medical specialists"
3: the act of referring; "reference to an encyclopedia produced
the answer" [syn: {reference}]
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