<OL TYPE="1"><LI>to transact business, esp. to manage public affairs<OL TYPE="a"><LI>to advise or consult with one about public affairs<LI>to make answer to those who ask for advice, present enquiries or requests, etc.<OL TYPE="1"><LI>of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings</OL></OL><LI>to give a response to those consulting an oracle, to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven<OL TYPE="a"><LI>to be divinely commanded, admonished, instructed<LI>to be the mouthpiece of divine revelations, to promulgate the commands of God</OL><LI>to assume or take to one's self a name from one's public business<OL TYPE="a"><LI>to receive a name or title, be called</OL></OL>