[It. and Sp. consulta: cf. CONSULT sb., and CONSULTO.] An (official) consultation; a meeting of council (Italian, Spanish, or Portuguese); the minutes of such a meeting.
1768. Boswell, Corsica, ii. (ed. 2), 141. To give an account in the next general consulta, of what passports he had granted.
1851. Gallenga [Mariotti], Italy, 47. The convocation of a Consulta of laymen.
1855. Prescott, Philip II. (1857), II. v. 196. Matters of real importance, which were reserved for a consulta, consisting, besides the regent, of Granvelle, Count Barlaimont, and the learned jurist Viglius.
1877. Gardiner, Personal Govt. of Chas. I., I. Pref. 10. The collection of consultas of the Council of State.
