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Definition of Consistory
1. Noun. A church tribunal or governing body.
Definition of Consistory
1. n. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
2. a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
Definition of Consistory
1. Noun. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. ¹
2. Noun. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. ¹
3. Noun. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. ¹
4. Noun. A church tribunal or governing body. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) A civil court of justice. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Consistory
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Consistory
Literary usage of Consistory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inventory of Unpublished Material for American Religious History in by William Henry Allison (1910)
"A trunk containing church records Minutes of consistory. 1829-1873. ... Minutes of
the Spiritual consistory. 1859- Minutes of the consistory. 1836-1865. ..."
2. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Labor, United States Office of Education (1912)
"We find in the consistory minutes (Feb. ... Flatbush consistory minutes, p. 16.
1 Ibid., p. 'M. The words art- Van Zuuren'* owu; italics, the writer's. ..."
3. A History of the English Church During the Civil Wars and Under the by Ecole littéraire de Montréal, Charles Gill, William Arthur Shaw (1900)
"The consistory claims the function of excommunication. ... Thereupon the consistory
was immediately installed, and from December, 1541, proceeded to act. ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Council- of dogmatics, but also of the Old and or of the the New Testament and
practical the- consistory. ology. He founded the Reformierte Kirchenzeitung ..."
5. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"But as, in spite of what he said, not one came forward, the Cardinals in consistory
decided that each of them in turn should go up to the Pope and make ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"consistory, a term applied originally to an antechamber or outer-room of the
palace of the emperors of Rome, where the petitioners for justice assembled and ..."
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