Parliament

pär′li-ment, n. a meeting for deliberation: the supreme legislature of Great Britain, also of some of her colonies: in France, down to the Revolution, one of certain superior and final courts of judicature, in which also the edicts of the king were registered before becoming law.— adjs. Parliamentā′rian , adhering to the Parliament in opposition to Charles I.; Parliament′ary , pertaining to parliament: enacted or done by parliament: according to the rules and practices of legislative bodies.— Parliamentary agent , a person employed by private persons or societies for drafting bills or managing busine to be brought before parliament; Parliamentary borough , a borough having the right of sending a member or members to parliament; Parliamentary train , a train which, by act of parliament, runs both ways along a line of railway, at least once each day, at the rate of one penny per mile.— Act of parliament , a statute that has pa ed through both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, and received the formal royal a ent. [Fr. parlement — parler , to speak.]