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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadNoah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Consistory
Subjects in this Topic:
(1):
(n.) A church tribunal or governing body.
(2):
(n.) A civil court of justice.
(3):
(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
(4):
(n.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
(5):
(n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
(6):
(n.) Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.