council (n.)
- alliance
- assemblage
- assembly
- assignation
- association
- audience
- axis
- ball
- band
- bargaining
- bloc
- board
- body
- brawl
- cabinet
- cadre
- camarilla
- caucus
- coalition
- college
- colloquium
- combination
- combine
- commission
- committee
- conclave
- concourse
- confab
- confabulation
- confederacy
- confederation
- conference
- confrontation
- congregation
- congress
- consistory
- consultation
- conventicle
- convention
- convocation
- cooperative
- corps
- curia
- dance
- date
- diet
- directorate
- directors
- directory
- discussion
- divan
- eisteddfod
- federation
- festivity
- fete
- forum
- gang
- gathering
- group
- grouping
- housewarming
- huddle
- infrastructure
- inquisition
- interview
- judicatory
- judicature
- judiciary
- league
- levee
- machine
- management
- meet
- meeting
- ministry
- mob
- negotiations
- palaver
- panel
- parley
- partnership
- party
- plenum
- powwow
- prom
- quorum
- rally
- reception
- rendezvous
- ring
- seance
- session
- shindig
- sit-in
- sitting
- society
- soiree
- summit
- symposium
- synod
- tribunal
- turnout
- union
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The Genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.
And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons, when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.
