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See also: Spanish word meaning (1) any meeting for a See also: common purpose; (2) a committee; (3) an administrative council or See also: board
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The See also: original meaning is now rather lost in the two derivative significations
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The Spaniards have even begun to make use of the barbarism See also: main, corrupted from the See also: English " meeting." The word See also: junta has always been and still is used in the other senses
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Some of the boards by which the Spanish administration was conducted under the See also: Habsburg and the earlier Bourbon See also: kings were styled juntas
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The See also: superior governing See also: body of the Inquisition was the junta suprema
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The provincial committees formed to organize resistance to See also: Napoleon's invasion in 18o8 were so called, and so was the general committee chosen from among them to represent the nation
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In the War of Independence (1808-1814), and in all subsequent See also: civil See also: wars or revolutionary disturbances in See also: Spain or Spanish See also: America, the See also: local executive bodies, elected, or in some cases self-chosen, to appoint See also: officers, raise See also: money and soldiers, look after the wounded, and discharge the functions of an administration, have been known as juntas
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The See also: form " Junto," a corruption due to other Spanish words ending in -o, came into use in English in the 17th century, often in a disparaging sense, of a party See also: united for a See also: political purpose,a faction or cabal; it was particularly applied to the advisers of See also: Charles I., to the Rump under
See also: Cromwell, and to the leading members of the See also: great Whig houses who controlled the See also: government in the reigns of See also: William III. and
See also: Anne
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