Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In England, the book in which the names of privy councilors are entered.
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Examples
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And when they have made their examination, that upon which the president together with the two deputies shall determine, shall be carried out, being attested by all in the presence of the clerk of the cabildo, that he may record it in the council-book.
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Halliwell tells us, that there are not less than thirty-four ways in which the various members of the Shakespeare family wrote the name, and in the council-book of the corporation of Stratford, where it is introduced one hundred and sixty-six times during the period that the dramatist's father was a member of the municipal body, there are fourteen different spellings.
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He carried his point, and the words in the council-book with reference to the war are: "As I mount the throne in the midst of an expensive, but just and necessary war, I shall endeavour to prosecute it in a manner most likely to bring about an honourable and lasting peace in concert with my allies".
The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration William Hunt 1886
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- The Duke of Devonshire's name erased out of the council-book -- 200 144.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
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He sent immediately for the journals of the commons; and, with his own hand, before the council, he tore out this protestation; [****] [56] and ordered his reasons to be inserted in the council-book.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. David Hume 1743
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