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Consistory  n.  (pl. consistories)  
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.
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. Note: 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.)





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"Consistory" Quotes from Famous Books



... other selfe, my Counsailes Consistory, My Oracle, My Prophet, my deere Cosin, I, as a childe, will go by thy direction, Toward London then, for wee'l ...
— The First Folio [35 Plays] • William Shakespeare
... had been a twentieth? And what becomes of the great principle of papal infallibility when a pope admits to a mistake in elementary arithmetic? Oh, but this is a very dangerous heresy, let me tell you, an Inquisition matter, a consistory business! Yet, luckily, upon his ...
— Jurgen - A Comedy of Justice • James Branch Cabell
... Rome, for Pope Innocent XI highly approved of this persecution. He wrote a brief to the king, assuring him that what he had done against the heretics of his kingdom would be immortalieied by the eulogies of the Catholic church. He delivered a discourse in the Consistory in 1689, in which he said, "The most Christian king's zeal and piety did wonderfully appear in extirpating heresy." He ordered the TE DEUM to be sung. Evelyn says, "I was show'd the harangue which the bishop of Valentia on Rhone made in the ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin


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