1) to transact business, esp. to manage public affairs

a) to advise or consult with one about public affairs

b) to make answer to those who ask for advice, present enquiries or requests, etc.

1) of judges, magistrates, rulers, kings

2) to give a response to those consulting an oracle, to give a divine command or admonition, to teach from heaven

a) to be divinely commanded, admonished, instructed

b) to be the mouthpiece of divine revelations, to promulgate the commands of God

3) to assume or take to one's self a name from one's public business

a) to receive a name or title, be called