Cŏn'sul-tā'tion, n.
n. [Lat. consultatio, Fr. consultation.]
Sense 1. The act of consulting; deliberating of two or more persons, with a view to some decision.
Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended. Milton.
Sense 2. A meeting of persons to consult together; a council, as of lawyers retained in a cause, or of physicians in a dangerous disease.
Writ of consultation (Law), a writ awarded by a superior court to return a cause which had been removed by prohibition from an inferior to its original jurisdiction; — so called because the judges, on consultation, find the prohibition ill-founded. Bouvier.