counsel (kounsel)

[Early mod. E. also coun sell, counsil, council, councel, etc., We took sweet counsel together. Ps. lv. 14. 2. Advice; opinion or instruction given, as the result of consultation or request; aid or instruction given in directing the judgment or conduct of another. There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. Bacon , Friendship. Ill counsel had misled the girl. Tennyson , Prince , vii. 3. Prudence; due consideration; wise and cautious exercise of judgment; examination of consequences. They all confe that in the working of that first cause, counsel is used, reason followed, and a way observed. Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. § 2. O how comely is the wisdom of old men, and understanding and counsel to men of honour! Ecclus. xxv. 5. 4. Deliberate purpose; design; intent; scheme; plan. To shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel . Heb. vi. 17. 51. A private or secret opinion or purpose; consultation in secret; concealment. 'Tis but a pastime smil'd at Amongst yourselves in counsel ; but beware Of being overheard. Ford, Fancies, i. 3. Who's your doctor, Phantaste? Nay, that's counsel , Philautia; you shall pardon me. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, ii. 1. 6. One who gives counsel, especially in matters of law; a counselor or advocate, or several such, engaged in the direction or the trial IMG:content-1425.png:[blocks in formation] of a cause in court: as, the plaintiff's or defenof the realm are hereditary counselors of the dant's counsel. [In this sense the word is either singular or plural.] This is my plea, on this I rest my cause- What saith my counsel , learned in the laws? Pope , Imit, of Horace, II. i. 142. The king found his counsel as refractory as his judges. Macaulay , Hist. Eng., vi. On the ocean so deep She her council did keep . = Sp. consejar = Pg. conselhar = It. consigliare , consiliari , take counsel, cons ilium , coun- sel: see counsel , n.] I. trans . 1. To give coun- sel or advice to; advise; admonish; instruct. And Crist counsaileth thus, and comaundeth bot he To lerede [learned] and to lewede [unlearned] for to loue Piers Plowman (C), xxii. 113. oure enemys. IMG:content-1426.png:[blocks in formation] To counsell with thir lord is begane, Of matter is to concluide. counsel-keeper (koun's el-kē"pėr), n. One who can keep a secret. counsel-keeping (koun's el-kē"ping), a. Keep- ing secrets; observing secrecy. With a happy storm they were surpris'd, And curtain'd with a counsel - keeping cave. IMG:content-1427.png:[blocks in formation] count1 (kount), v. [ counten , cunter , conter, F. conter = Pr. comtar , condar = Sp. Pg . contar = It. contare , L.com put are , count, com- pute: see compute , which is a doublet of count1 . Cf. compt1.] I. trans. 1. To number; a ign the numerals one, two, three, etc., succe ively and in order to all the individual objects of (a collection), one to each; enumerate: as, to count the years, days, and hours of a man's life; to count the stars. Who can count the dust of Jacob? Num. xxiii. 10. Some tribes of rude nations count their years by the coming of certain birds among them at their certain sea- sons and leaving them at others. Locke . We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; We should count time by heart-throbs. 2. To ascertain the number of by more com- plex proce es of computation; compute; e; reck- This boke sheweth the manner of measuring of all maner of lande and comptynge the true nombre of acres of the same. Sir R. Benese (about 1530). 3. To reckon to the credit of another; place to an account; ascribe or impute; consider or esteem as belonging. He [Abraham] believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousne . Gen. xv. 6. 4. To account; esteem; think, judge, deem, or consider. Neither count I my life dear unto myself. Acts xx. 24. 'Tis all one Ford and Dekker , Witch of Edmonton, ii. 1. I count the gray barbarian lower than the Christian child. Tennyson, Locksley Hall. Henceforth let day be counted night, And midnight called the morn. IMG:content-1428.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1429.png:[blocks in formation] To count one's chickens before they are hatched. See chicken1 . To count out, to defeat by a fraudulent miscount of the ballots cast: as, to count out a candidate. - To count out the House, in the British House of Com- mons, to bring a sitting to a close by the declaration of the Speaker (after counting) that fewer than 40 members (a quorum), including the Speaker, are present: as, the House was counted out last night at nine o'clock. It might perhaps be worth consideration whether divi- sions should be taken or the House counted out between seven o'clock and nine. Edinburgh Rev., CLXV. 293. To count the cost, to consider beforehand the probable expense, trouble, or risk. To count the house, to as- the number present, as of spectators at a perform- ance in a theater, of members of a legislative body, etc. II. in trans. 1. To ascertain the number of objects in a collection by a igning to them in order the numerals one, two, three, etc.; de- termine the number of objects in a group by a proce partly mechanical and partly arithmettown, are come. ical, or in any way whatsoever; number.-2. To be able to reckon; be expert in numbers: as, he can read, write, and count .-3. To take account; enter into consideration of a thing (obsolete), with a person. No man counts of her beauty. Shak ., T. G. of V., ii. 1. It was clear that the artist was some one who must be counted with ; but he was reproached with a desire to be singular and extraordinary. Encyc . Brit ., XIII. 75. 4. In music , to keep time, or mark the rhythm of a piece, by naming the succe ive pulses, accents, or beats.-5. To be of value; be worth reckoning or taking into account; swell the number: as, every vote counts.-6. To reckon; depend; rely: with on or upon . count in the eldest son of the monarch, or in the monarch himself when there is no Prince of Wales. Durham became a palatinate in the time of William the Conqueror, and the dignity continued in connection with the bishopric till 1836, when it was vested in the crown. See palatine, and county palatine, under county.