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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or generated by a council.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of or pertaining to a council or to its proceedings. Also conciliary.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to, or issued by, a council.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Latin concilium, council; see council.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Latin concilium +‎ -ar.

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