See also:

• JUNTA (from juntar, to join)

JUNTA (from juntar, to join)  , a See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish word meaning (1) any See also:

• MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting for a See also:

• COMMON

common purpose; (2) a See also:

• COMMITTEE (from commute, an Anglo-Fr. past participle of commettre, Lat. committere, to entrust; the modern Fr. equivalent comite is derived from the Eng.)

committee; (3) an administrative See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council or See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board . The See also:

• ORIGINAL

original meaning is now rather lost in the two derivative significations . The Spaniards have even begun to make use of the barbarism See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main, corrupted from the See also:

• ENGLISH

English " meeting." The word See also:

• JUNTA (from juntar, to join)

junta has always been and still is used in the other senses . Some of the boards by which the Spanish See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration was conducted under the See also:

• HABSBURG, or HAPSBURG

Habsburg and the earlier See also:

• BOURBON
• BOURBON, CHARLES, DUKE OF (149o-1527)

Bourbon See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings were styled juntas . The See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior governing See also:

• BODY

body of the See also:

• INQUISITION, THE (Lat. inquisitio, an inquiry)

Inquisition was the junta suprema . The provincial committees formed to organize resistance to See also:

• NAPOLEON

Napoleon's invasion in 18o8 were so called, and so was the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general committee chosen from among them to represent the nation . In the See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War of See also:

• INDEPENDENCE
• INDEPENDENCE, DECLARATION OF
• INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF

Independence (1808-1814), and in all subsequent See also:

• CIVIL

civil See also:

• WARS

wars or revolutionary disturbances in See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain or Spanish See also:

• AMERICA

America, the See also:

• LOCAL

local executive bodies, elected, or in some cases self-chosen, to appoint See also:

• OFFICERS

officers, raise See also:

• MONEY

money and soldiers, look after the wounded, and See also:

• DISCHARGE (adapted from the O. Fr. discharge, modern decharge, from a med. Lat. discargare, to unload, dis- and earn care, to load, cf. " charge ")

discharge the functions of an administration, have been known as juntas . The See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form " Junto," a corruption due to other Spanish words ending in -o, came into use in English in the 17th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, often in a disparaging sense, of a party See also:

• UNITED

united for a See also:

• POLITICAL

political purpose,a See also:

• FACTION (through the French, from Lat. factio, a company of persons combined for action, facere, to do; from the other French derivative facon comes " fashion ")

faction or See also:

• CABAL (through the Fr. cabale from the Cabbala or Kabbalah, the theosophical interpretation of the Hebrew scriptures)

cabal; it was particularly applied to the advisers of See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles I., to the Rump under See also:

• CROMWELL, HENRY (1628-1674)
• CROMWELL, OLIVER (1599-1658)
• CROMWELL, RICHARD (1626–1712)
• CROMWELL, THOMAS, EARL OF

Cromwell, and to the leading members of the See also:

• GREAT

great Whig houses who controlled the See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government in the reigns of See also:

• WILLIAM
• WILLIAM (1143-1214)
• WILLIAM (1227-1256)
• WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
• WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
• WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
• WILLIAM, 13TH

William III. and See also:

• ANNE (1665-1714)
• ANNE (1693-1740)

Anne .