consulate
[kon-suh-lit]
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Origin of consulate
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Contemporary Examples
The safety of American personnel at the American consulate in Libya was undermined by a “stand down order.”
Fortunately the Indian security guards at the consulate killed all the attackers.
Erbil, the Iraqi Kurdish capital, is home to a U.S. consulate and thousands of U.S. citizens working in the oil industry.
Neither the Indian consulate nor a representative from ICE in El Paso responded to requests for comment on this story.
When that tactic failed to break the strike, the Sikhs received a visitor: a representative from the Indian consulate in Houston.
Historical Examples
He returned to the consulate to talk over the matter with the trusty Scanlons.
Wild Justice: Stories of the South SeasLloyd Osbourne
"No, it is not the consulate," said Pachmann smoothly, and turned to Vard.
The DestroyerBurton Egbert Stevenson
To the guillotine succeeded the court-martial; then the Consulate, then the Empire.
Sir Jasper CarewCharles James Lever
He was the doctor of our Legation and, of course, of the Consulate, too.
The Shadow-LineJoseph Conrad
But in our Consulate (where I arrived dripping after a sharp walk) they could tell me nothing.
FalkJoseph Conrad
consulate
- the business premises or residence of a consul
- government by consuls
- the office or period of office of a consul or consuls
- (often capital)
- the government of France by the three consuls from 1799 to 1804
- this period of French history
- (often capital)
- the consular government of the Roman republic
- the office or rank of a Roman consul
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Word Origin and History for consulate
n.
late 14c., "government of Rome by the consuls," from Latin consulatus "office of a consul," from consul (see consul). Also used in reference to the consular government of France from 1799-1804. In reference to the office of a modern consul, from 1702.
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