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protect the republic : after this they departed from the 
city, arrayed in their military drefs, and preceded by 
the liflors. Sometimes the provinces were affigned them, 
without drawing by lot, by the will and appointment of 
the fenators.- At their departure, they were provided 
by the (late with whatever was requifite during their ex¬ 
pedition. In their provinces they were both attended 
by the twelve liclors, and equally invefted with regal 
authority. They were not permitted to return to Rome 
without the fpecial command of the fenate, and they al¬ 
ways remained in the province till the arrival of their 
fucceffor. At their return they harangued the peopie, 
and folemnly protefred that they had done nothing a'gaind 
the-laws or intereft of their country, but had faithfully 
and diligently endeavoured to promote the greatnefs and 
welfare of the (late. No man could be conful two fol¬ 
lowing years ; yet this inftitution was fometimes broken, 
and we find Marius re-ele£led conful, after the expira¬ 
tion of his office, during the Cimbrian war. The office 
of conful, fo dignified during the times of the common¬ 
wealth, became a mere title under the emperors, and 
retained nothing of its authority but the ufelel's enfigns of 
original dignity. Even the office of conful, which was 
originally annual, was reduced to two or three months 
by Julius Casfar ; but they who were admitted on the 
firft of January denominated the year, and were called 
ordinarii. Their fucceffors, during the year, were didin- 
guifhed by the name' oijuffc&i. Tiberius and Claudius 
abridged the time' of the confulfhip, and the emperor 
'Commodus made no lefs than twenty-five confuls in one 
year. Conftantine the Great renewed the original inhi¬ 
bition, and permitted them to be a whole year in office. 
CQN'SUL, f. in mercantile affairs, is an officer efta- 
blifhed by virtue of a commiflion from the king, in fo¬ 
reign countries, to facilitate and difpatch the Britilh 
trade. The confuls are empowered to keep up a cor- 
refpondence with the numbers of England, redding in 
the courts whereon their confulate depends. They are 
to fupport tbe commercial inferehs of tire nation; to 
difpofe of the Runs given, and- the prel'ents made, to the 
principals of places, to obtain their protection, and pre¬ 
vent inlults on the merchants. 
CON'SULAR, adj. [ coif laris, Lat.] Relating to the 
conful.—The conjular power had only the ornaments, 
without the force, of the royal authority. SpeSPator. ‘ 
CON'SULAR. MAN, one who had been conful: 
Rofe not the confdar men, and left their places, 
So foon as thou fat’d down ? Ben Jotfou's Cataline. 
CONSULATE, f. [confulatus, Lat.] The office of 
conful.—His name and confulate were effaced out of all 
public regibers and infenptions, Addifon. 
CON'S JLSHIP, /. The office of conful: 
The lovely boy,, with his aufpicious face, 
Shall Poilio’s conjuljhip and triumph grace. Drydsn. 
To CONSU'LT, v.n. [cmflto, Lat.] To take coun- 
fel together ; to deliberate in common : it has with be¬ 
fore the peribn admitted to confultation.— Confult not 
with. the (lothful for any work. Ecclus. xxxvii.— He Cent 
for his bofom friends, with whom he mod confidently 
xorflted, and (hewed the paper to them, the. contents 
whereof .he could not conceive. Clarendon. 
Every «man,. 
After the hideous dorm that follow'd, was 
A thing ini’pir’d ; and, not confulting,. broke 
Into a general .prophecy, that this temped, 
Dafhing the garment of this pe.-.ce, aboded 
The (bidden breach on’t. Shahfpeare. 
To CONSU'L a v.a. To afk advice of: as, he con- 
fulted his friends ; to confulf an author. To regard ; to 
sCt with view- cr refpeCl to.—We arc, in the find place, 
.to confult the neceflities of life, rather than matters of 
ernament and delight. I;If range. 
C O N 
The fenate owes its gratitude to Cato, 
Who with fo great a foul confults its fafety, 
And guards our lives, while he neglects his own. Addif. 
To plan ; to contrive.—Thou had ccmfulted fhame to thy 
houfe, by cutting off many people. Hah. ii. io. 
CON'SULT,^. [from the verb. It is varioufly ac¬ 
cented.] The aid of confulting : 
Yourfelf in perfon head one chofen half, 
And march t’ opprefs the faction in confult 
With dying Dorax. Dry den. 
The effeft of confulting ; determination : 
He faid and rofe the fird ; the council broke ; 
And all their grave conj'ults diffolv’d in fmoke. Dryden. 
A council ; a number of perfons affembled in delibera¬ 
tion.—Divers meetings and conj'ults. of our whole number, 
to confider of the former labours. Bacon. 
A confult of coquets below 
Was call’d, to rig him out a beau. Swift. 
CONSULTATION, / The aCt of confulting ; fecret 
deliberation.—The chief prieds held a confultation with 
the elders and feribes.' Mark. xv. i.—A number of per¬ 
fons conlulted together; a council.—A confultation was- 
called, wherein he advifed a falivation. Wijeman. 
CCNSULTA'TION,y. inlaw, a writ whereby a caufe 
having been removed by prohibition from the ecclefiadi- 
cal court, to the king’s court, is returned thither again ; 
for if the judges of the king’s court, upon comparing 
the libel with the fuggedion of the party, find the fug- 
gedion falfe, or not proved, and therefore the caufe to 
be wrongfully called from the eccleliadicai court, then 
upon this confultation or deliberation they decree, it to 
be returned ; -whereupon the writ in this cafe obtained, 
is called a confultation. Reg.Orig. 44, See. Statute of writ 
of coufultatidns, 24 Edw. 1 . This writ is in the nature 
of a procedendo ; but properly a confultation ought not to 
be granted, but in cafe where a man cannot recover at 
the common law, in the king’s courts. New Nat. Br. 119. 
Caufes of which the ecclefiadical or fpiritual courts have 
jurifdiition, are, of adminidrations, adrniflions of clerks, 
adultery, appeals in ecclefiadical caufes, apodacy, general 
badardy, blafphemy, folicitation of chudity, dilapida¬ 
tions -and church repairs, celebration of divine fervice, 
divorces, fornication, herefy, inceft, inftitution of clerks, 
marriage rites, oblations, obventions, ordinations^ com¬ 
mutation of penance, penffons, procurations, fchjfm, 
fimony, tithes, probate of wills, &c. and where a fait 
is in the ecclefiadical court for any of thefe caufes, and 
not mixed with any temporal thing, if a fuggedion is 
made for a prohibition, a confultation fnall be awarded. 
5 Rep; 9. To move for a prohibition in another court, 
after motion in the chancery. See. cn the fame libel which 
is granted, is merely vexatious, for which a confultatian 
(hail be had. Cro. Eliz. 277. Where a confultation is 
granted upon the right of the thing in queftion, there a 
new prohibition fhail never be granted on the fame libel; 
but where granted upon any default of the prohibition, 
in form, &c. there a prohibition may be granted upon 
the fame libel again. 1 Nel. Abr. 485. 
CONSUL' IER, f. One that confults, or a(ks counfel 
or intelligence.—There fhail not be found among you a 
charmer, or a conjulter with familiar fpirits, or a wizard, 
D'cut; xviii. n. 
CONSU'MABLE, adj. Sufceptible of dcdruflion ; 
pofiible to be waded,, (pent,.or- dedroyed.—Our growing 
rich or poor depends only on our importation or exporta- 
tion of conj'umable commodities. Locke. 
To CONSU'ME, v. a. [coifumo, Lat.] To wade; to 
fpend ; tc deftroy.—Thou (halt carry much'feed out into 
the.field, and (halt gather, but little in ; for. the locuds 
(hall confume it. Deut. xxviii. 
Where two raging, fires meet together, 
They do confine the thing that feeds their fury, Shakefp, 
To 
