[a. L. consultor counsellor, adviser, also consulter, agent-n. from consul-ĕre to advise, counsel: cf. F. consulteur, which may represent either L. consultor or L. consultātor.]
† 1. A member of a consultory body; an official counsellor or adviser. Obs.
1630. Wadsworth, Pilgr., iii. 18. The Prefect and his 12 Consultors.
1651. Life Father Sarpi (1676), p. xliv. The most excellent Senate came to a resolution, to chuse next after their Consultors in Jure, a man that was both Divine and a Canonist.
1670. Walton, Life Wotton, 40. He studied the dispositions of those dukes, and the other consultors of state.
2. = CONSULTER 2.
1842–3. W. Smith, Dict. Grk. & Rom. Antiq., IV. 692. In the night in which the consultor was to be allowed to descend into the cave of Trophonius.
