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- noun Plural form of
consulter .
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Examples
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Horoscope readers, crystal ball consulters, tarot card dealers, magnetic bracelet wearers, burners of incense sticks, carriers of charms, and rabbit's feet and crystal pyramids.
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Universe, while consulters and consulted know it not, dost by Thy hidden inspiration effect that the consulter should hear what, according to the hidden deservings of souls, he ought to hear, out of the unsearchable depth of Thy just judgment, to Whom let no man say, What is this?
The Confessions 1999
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These consulters repaired to the grave at night, and there lying down, repeated certain words in a low, muttering tone, and the spirit thus summoned appeared.
Mysticism and its Results Being an Inquiry into the Uses and Abuses of Secrecy John Delafield
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Another way of finding out a valentine was to cast into a receptacle small billets, with (if the consulters were young women) bachelors 'names on them, and then to draw them out lottery-wise.
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If it concerns a newly created diocese, the consulters of all the dioceses from whose territory the new diocese was formed and all the irremovable rectors of the new diocese choose the three candidates of the clergy.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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He was aided by a High Council (Consejo Supremo) consisting of five members -- the so-called Apostolic inquisitors, two secretaries, two relatores, one advocatus fiscalis -- and several consulters and qualificators.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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The Council of Ancyra (c. xxiv) in 314 decreed five years penance to consulters of diviners, and that of Laodicea
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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For Thou, O Lord, most righteous Ruler of the Universe, while consulters and consulted know it not, dost by Thy hidden inspiration effect that the consulter should hear what, according to the hidden deservings of souls, he ought to hear, out of the unsearchable depth of Thy just judgment, to Whom let no man say, What is this?
The Seventh Book 1909
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Hence the professors of low superstitions, of mysteries, of magic, of astrology, were the outlaws of society, and were in a condition analogous, if the comparison may be allowed, to smugglers or poachers among ourselves, or perhaps to burglars and highwaymen; for the Romans had ever burnt the sorcerer and banished his consulters for life.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 Rossiter Johnson 1906
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Can. lxxxiii., where a lighter punishment is assigned to consulters of wizards.
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