council vs counsel
Definitions
noun
- a meeting of people for consultation
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
Examples
By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife.
Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries.
Definitions
verb
- give advice to
noun
- something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action
- a lawyer who pleads cases in court
Examples
The woman sitting next to me had counseled children facing severe emotional and physical abuse for 20 years.
Closing date for enrolment forms was on Tuesday March 1st, 2005 for Good Counsel Girls School.
The center provides counseling service to victims who have been raped.
