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Definitions of council
  1. noun
    a body serving in an administrative capacity
    "student council"
  2. noun
    a meeting of people for consultation
    "emergency council"
  3. noun
    (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
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  • soviet an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
  • trent a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trent
  • constance the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
  • councillor a member of a council
  • councilman a man who is a council member
  • constantinople the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
  • constantinople the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
  • constantinople the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
  • constantinople the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
  • tc a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory
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