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

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) A civil court of justice.

Consistory :: Consistory (n.) A church tribunal or governing body.

Consistory :: Consistory (a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory..

#NAME? :: -ory () A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, factory, etc..

Classis :: Classis (n.) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church..

Consistorian :: Consistorian (a.) Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

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

Consistorial :: Consistorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a consistory.

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