[ad. L. consulāt-us, f. consul: see -ATE1 1: so F. consulat.]

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  1.  The government of Rome by consuls; the office, dignity, or position of the consuls.

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1387.  Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), V. 219. After þat tyme þe consulat of Rome lefte in þe Est.

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1533.  Bellenden, Livy, IV. (1822), 315. Gif the Romane pepill has fre suffrage to gif the consulate quhare thay pleis.

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1684.  Contempl. State Man, I. ii. (1699), 20. Where is now the splendor of the Consulat? Where the Lictors and their Fasces?

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1763.  Taylor, in Phil. Trans., LIII. 134. And one of those consulates this stone alludes to.

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1850.  Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), II. xviii. 332. The battle of Pharsalia was … the vindication of the senate and the consulate against rebels and traitors.

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  2.  The consular government in France, and the period during which it existed (1799–1804).

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1845.  D. F. Campbell (title), Thiers’ History of the Consulate and the Empire of Napoleon.

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  † 3.  A body of consuls or officers so styled; a municipal council. Obs.

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1494.  Fabyan, Chron., VII. 527. All the offycers of the towne, with the consulat or rulers of the same.

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  4.  The office or establishment of a modern commercial consul; also of a Cyclists’ Club ‘consul.’

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1702.  W. J., trans. Bruyn’s Voy. Levant, xxxii. 121. The Vice-Consul … under the Consulate of Smyrna.

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1848.  W. H. Kelly, trans. L. Blanc’s Hist. Ten Y., I. 257. The tricolour flag floating over the French consulate in Warsaw.

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1865.  Maffei, Brigand Life, II. 138. The chancellerie of the Neapolitan consulate-general.

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1870.  Anderson, Missions Amer. Bd., IV. xxvii. 106. The lamented removal of … the English Consul, to a more desirable consulate in European Turkey.

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  5.  attrib.

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1882.  Prospectus Bicycle Touring Club. The B. T. C. consulate arrangements are composed of twenty-four districts.

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1883.  Pall Mall G., 12 Sept., 8/1. All the consulate flags were hauled down by the Consuls.

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