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Word: consistory (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A church tribunal or governing body.
  • An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
  • obsolete A civil court of justice.
  • Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
  • The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

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