1) to transact business, esp. to manage public affairs
    1a) to advise or consult with one about public affairs
    1b) to make answer to those who ask for advice, present enquiries
        or requests, etc.
        1b1) 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
    2a) to be divinely commanded, admonished, instructed
    2b) 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
    3a) to receive a name or title, be called