noun
Meaning 1
A solemn assembly or council.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 2
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1860-1876, Walter Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin
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noun
Meaning 3
An assembly of prelates; a session of the College of Cardinals at Rome.
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noun
Meaning 4
A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
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noun
Meaning 5
A civil court of justice.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Early, Modern, obsolete
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noun
Meaning 6
a church tribunal or governing body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: court, tribunal, judicature
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English consistorie, from Old Northern French consistorie (“secular tribunal”) (Old French consistoire), and Late Latin consistorium (“waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council”). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century. By surface analysis, consist + -ory.
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