Charger sa conscience. To commit a wicked, or lewd act. Faire conscience de. To sticke at, or make a scruple of. Qui veut la conscience monde, Il doit fuir le monde immonde: Prov. Looke Monde. Conscientieusement. Religiously, deuoutly, with a good conscience; curiously, scrupulously.
Conscientieux: m. euse: f. Conscientious; godlie, deuout, religious, of a good conscience, full of conscience; also, scrupulous, timerous, curious.
Conscinomantie. Diuination by a siue, and a paire of sheeres. ¶Rab. Consecutif: m. iue: f. Consecutiue, or consequent; next or immediatly succeeding, ensuing necessarily, certainly following.
Consecution: f. A consequence, or consequent; an order, succession, following; a necessarie issue, or ensuing.
Consecutivement. Consequently.
Conseigneur: m. A fellow Lord; a Partner, Associate, equall in dominion, or seignorie.
Conseil: m. Counsell, aduise; a iudgement, or opinion demaunded, or giuen; also, a Court, Companie, Assemblie, or Association of Counsellors; The bodie of the Counsell; whence;
Conseil des Affaires. The Counsell of State; the Priuie Counsell; held ordinarily in the Kings closet, and most commonly a mornings, or at his getting vp; when the Packets of forraine Princes, Embassadours, and Gouernors of Prouinces be opened, and resolutions taken as well vpon them, as vpon other important, and State-affaires of the time; the ouerture, and dispatch whereof is committed ouer vnto the principall Secretaries, who euer attend his Maiestie in this Counsell, either alone, or with such Lords as he pleases extraordinarily to call vnto it.
Conseil d'Estat. An assemblie of Counsellors, wherein, when it concerns matters of warre, the Constable, when causes of Iustice, the Chancelor, be Presidents; and the Princes of the bloud, Peeres of France, Officers of the Crowne, Gouernours of Prouinces, chiefe Presidents of the Parliaments, and (by speciall fauour, or commission from the King) other great Personages, be assistants; yet none, with any obligation of ordinarie attendance, but a few of them (commonly of the long Robe) who haue pensions allowed them for it. This Counsell is thus tearmed when it is assembled about publicke, and important businesses; for vpon other occasions it is tearmed otherwise.
Conseil estroit. as Conseil des Affaires.
Conseil des finances. as Conseil d'Estat; when it is assembled about the ordering, or disposing of the Kings Reuenue.
Conseil privé. as Conseil d'Estat; but called thus when it is assembled about particular controuersies, or causes betweene partie and partie, and of some resemblance with those, which are determined at our Counsell Table.
Conseil secret; & Conseil secret d'Estat; as Conseil des Affaires.
Le grand conseil. A Court composed of foure Presidents (who are withall to be Maisters of Requests) and twentie Counsellors; which determine ordinarily of appeales from the Prouost of the Kings household; and extraordinarily of such causes as be referred vnto them by commission from Le Conseil privé.
Le privé conseil. as Conseil privé.
Nos gens ne parlent pas en conseil, viz. They gape so loud that all the house rings of them. À conseil de fol cloche de bois: Prov. For wood-*cocks counsels woodden bells. Chose faicte conseil prins: Prov. For things alreadie done the care's alreadie taken; matters once past it's bootlesse to talke of them; a businesse ended ends dispute about it. De chose perduë le conseil ne se remuë: Pro. Aduise is idle when a thing is lost; or when things are lost why should we aske aduise? Il peche sagement qui fait folie par conseil: Prov. Looke Pecher. La nuict donne conseil: Prov. Night giues aduise; We say, take counsell of your pillow. Pour neant demande conseil qui ne le veut croire: Prov. In vaine he counsell askes that will not trust in't.
Conseiller: m. as Conseillier. Conseiller. To counsell, aduise, direct; persuade, admonish, warne. Se conseiller à. To demaund counsell, take th' aduise, aske th' opinion, craue the direction, of. Se conseiller sur. To examine, weigh, ponder; to aduise, deliberate, consult of.
Conseillerie: f. A Counsellorship; the place, or office of a Counsellor, or Conseillier. Conseillier: m. A Counsellor; one that giues his aduise, or deliuers his opinion, vpon a doubt propounded, businesse discussed, or cause to be determined; hence, a priuie Counsellor vnto a Prince; a Senatour in a citie; and an Assistant in a Court of Iustice; also, (in Normand-French) an Aduocate, or Counsellor at Law. Conseillier de son oreille. Said of a priuie Counsellor, whose aduise his Prince euer likes well, and loues to heare often; one that frames his wordes to fit the well-knowne humour of his Prince; one that, in respect thereof, is very gracious with him, or hath his eare.
Consemblable: com. Very like vnto, much resembling, matching with. Ses consemblables. His fellowes, consorts, complices, companions.
Consentant: m. ante: f. Consenting, or partaking, with; accessarie, or agreeing, vnto; approouing, or allowing, of. Consentant du cas. A consenter, accessarie, partaker.
Consentement: m. A consent; an agreement, or accord, vnto; an approbation, or allowance, of.
Consentir. To consent; accord, or agree, vnto; iumpe, or concurre, with; approue, or allow, of. Assez consent qui ne dit mot: Prov. He consents enough that sayes nothing; (Many, who know not much more Latine, can say, Qui tacet consentire videtur.) Tel consent qui se repent: Prov. Some yeelding (in hast) repent (at leisure;) or, some agreements prooue agreeuances.
Consequemment. Consequently; successiuely, by course, in order; thereafter.
Consequence: f. A consequence, consequent, (necessarie) sequele. Vne matiere de consequence. A matter of importance, moment, or weight.
Consequent: m. ente: f. Consequent, following, successiue, succeeding, orderlie, well ranked, in consequence, fitly hanging together.
