a. [f. L. concilium + -AR: on L. type *conciliār-is. (There was a late L. consiliāris of or pertaining to counsel: cf. the confusion between COUNCIL and COUNSEL.)] Of or pertaining to a council or its proceedings; used esp. of ecclesiastical councils.

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a. 1677.  Barrow, Pope’s Suprem. (1687), 199. The Emperor was President … as an Orderer of the Conciliar transactions.

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1700.  T. Baker, Refl. Learn. (1708), xiv. 201. Ancient Canons … having been framed by Men of Primitive Simplicity, in free and conciliar Debates, without any ambitious Regards.

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1826.  W. Keary (title), Historical Review of Papal and Conciliar Infallibility.

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1880.  Hatch, Bampton Lect., i. 5. The internal evidence for the history of the organization of Christianity ranges itself into two classes—patristic literature and conciliar literature.

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  Hence Conciliarly adv., in a conciliar manner, by a council.

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1656.  Bramhall, Replic., viii. 336. This Decree was not conciliarly made.

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a. 1677.  Barrow, Pope’s Suprem., Wks. 1859, VIII. 59. Those things that were conciliarly determined … by the present Council.

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1846.  G. S. Faber, Lett. Tractar. Secess., 182. The conciliarly determined Romish Rule.

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