Consistory

[Con*sis·to*ry]

A church tribunal or governing body

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Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

Noun
a church tribunal or governing body

n.
Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

n.
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

n.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

n.
A church tribunal or governing body.

n.
A civil court of justice.

a.
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.

Consistory

> Con*sis"to*ry (? or ?; 277) n.; pl. Consistories . [L. consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. F. consistoire, It. consistorio. See Consist.] 1. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
To council summons all his mighty peers, Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, A gloomy consistory.
2. (Eng. Ch.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. Hook. 3. (R. C. Ch.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory.
4. A church tribunal or governing body. &hand; In some churches, as the Dutch Reformed in America, a consistory is composed of the minister and elders of an individual church, corresponding to a Presbyterian church session, and in others, as the Reformed church in France, it is composed of ministers and elders, corresponding to a presbytery. In some Lutheran countries it is a body of clerical and lay officers appointed by the sovereign to superintend ecclesiastical affairs. 5. A civil court of justice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Consistory

> Con*sis"to*ry, a. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory. "To hold consistory session." Strype.

Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.

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