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Webster 1913 Edition

Junta

Jun′ta

(jŭn′tȧ)

,

Noun.

;

pl.

Juntas

(jŭn′tȧz)

.

[Sp., fr. L.

junctus

joined,

p. p.

of

jungere

to join. See

, and cf.

.]

1.

A council; a convention; a tribunal; an assembly; esp., the grand council of state in Spain.