[f. COUNSEL v. + -ING1.] The action of the verb COUNSEL; giving or taking of counsel; advising.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 202. Þe comen wele was paied of þat conseilyng Þat it were not delaied.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Wife’s Prol., 67. But conseillyng is nat [v.r. nys no] comandement. Ibid. (a. 1533), Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546), G b. And x. M. counsailynges wolde be holden vpon eche of these thinges.
1607. Hieron, Wks., I. 359. What counselling with lawyers before engrossing.
a. 1849. Poe, Dickens, Wks. 1864, III. 476. The counsellings alluded to might be those of that gentleman with Rudge.
