Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Consultation \Con`sul*ta"tion\, n. [L. consultatio: cf. F.
   consultation.]
   1. The act of consulting or conferring; deliberation of two
      or more persons on some matter, with a view to a decision.

            Thus they doubtful consultations dark Ended.
                                                  --Milton.

   2. A council or conference, as of physicians, held to
      consider a special case, or of lawyers restained in a
      cause.

   {Writ of consultation} (Law), a writ by which a cause,
      improperly removed by prohibition from one court to
      another, is returned to the court from which it came; --
      so called because the judges, on consultation, find the
      prohibition ill-founded.