Council vs Caput - What's the difference?
council | caput |
A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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* Milton
* Alexander Pope
(anatomy) The head.
(anatomy) A knob-like protuberance or capitulum.
The top or superior part of a thing.
(UK) The council or ruling body of the University of Cambridge prior to the constitution of 1856.
* Lamb
As nouns the difference between council and caput
is that council is a committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council) while caput is the head.council
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=He turned back to the scene before him and the enormous new block of council dwellings. The design was some way after Corbusier but the block was built up on plinths and resembled an Atlantic liner swimming diagonally across the site.}}
- Satan void of rest, / His potentates to council called by night.
- O great in action and in council wise.
Hyponyms
* synodSee also
* counselcaput
English
Noun
(en-noun)- Your caputs and heads of colleges.