- A parleying; a discussion; a conference. - A formal conference on public affairs; a general
council; esp., an assembly of representatives of a nation or people
having authority to make laws. - The assembly of the three estates of the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Ireland, viz., the lords spiritual, lords
temporal, and the representatives of the commons, sitting in the House
of Lords and the House of Commons, constituting the legislature, when
summoned by the royal authority to consult on the affairs of the
nation, and to enact and repeal laws. - In France, before the Revolution of 1789, one of the
several principal judicial courts.
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