consultor

American  

[kuhn-suhl-ter] / kənˈsʌl tər /

noun

1. a member of a secular clergy who advises a bishop.

2. a specialist who advises the Roman Curia.

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Other Word Forms

• preconsultor
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of consultor

1620–30; < Latin, equivalent to consul ( ere ) to consult + -tor -tor

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Example Sentences

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consultor

Andrew Bolton, curator in charge of the Costume Institute, said he had reviewed his plans with Father James Martin, a consultor to the Vatican’s Secretariat for Communications, who had found little cause for alarm.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2018

Father Fillon was consultor to the Biblical Commission.

From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley

If they cannot be commanded at once, they will be slowly but surely led into the right road by a chaplain or secretary or consultor devoted to the Order.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von D?llinger

You are to help us here in future—a kind of consultor: any one can relate facts; not every one can understand them….

From Lord of the World by Robert Hugh Benson

Bob Pillin, in the fixed chair of the consultor, nursed his bowler on his knee.

From Five Tales by John Galsworthy

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