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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
--Milton. (Eng. Ch.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
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(R. C. Ch.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory.
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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.
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "secular tribunal," from Old North French consistorie (Old French consistoire, 12c.) and directly from Late Latin consistorium "waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council," from Latin consistere (see consist). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14c.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. 2 The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere. 3 An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome. 4 A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church. 5 (context obsolete English) A civil court of justice.
WordNet
n. a church tribunal or governing body
Wikipedia
A consistory may refer to:
- In the Roman empire, a formal meeting of the comites consistoriales
- Consistory court, a type of ecclesiastical court in the Church of England
- A papal consistory, a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church
- In Scandinavia, the chapter of a cathedral
- Consistory (Protestantism), a distinct governmental and ecclesiastical office in Europe
- In continental Reformed churches, a session or governing body of a local church
- Consistory (Judaism), a body governing the Jewish congregations of a province or of a country, primarily those under French influence; also the district administered by the consistory
- The Spiritual Consistory, an ecclesiastical office in the Russian Orthodox Church during the Synodal-period
A Jewish consistory (see conventional meanings: consistory in Wiktionary), (or Consistoire in French), was a body governing the Jewish congregations of a province or of a country; also the district administered by the consistory. The Jews in countries under French influence made use of the term in the beginning of the nineteenth century, when the movement for political emancipation demanded the creation of a representative body which could transact official business with a government in the name of the Jews, and when the desire for reform among the educated classes demanded the creation of a body vested with authority to render religious decisions.
In Protestant usage, a consistory designates certain ruling bodies in various churches. The meaning and the scope of functions varies strongly, also along the separating lines of the Protestant denominations and church bodies.
Usage examples of "consistory".
The capture of Faenza had brought Caesar the title of Duke of Romagna, which was first bestowed on him by the pope in full consistory, and afterwards ratified by the King of Hungary, the republic of Venice, and the Kings of Castile and Portugal.
The occasion was a reception of the New Orleans Consistory, Knights of Columbus, to welcome His Eminence John Patrick Mulcahy, titular archbishop of Swengchan, China, to the Crescent City.
New Orleans Consistory of the Knights of Columbus, that we would be honored to have your friends accompany you?
He might even want to convene a synod or consistory of senior Templar officers.
Assyria, rather than at the severe consistory of a Roman pontiff, whose solemn duty it is to exhibit in every act the sanctity of the name he bears.
King of Naples not to release a man who, ever since the 1st of June, 1496, had been a declared rebel, he pronounced a sentence of confiscation against Virginio Orsini and his whole family in a secret consistory, which sat on the 26th of October following--that is to say, in the early days of the reign of Frederic, whom he knew to be entirely at his command, owing to the King's great desire of getting the investiture from him.
Accordingly this proposition was put forward in a full consistory, and as the college of cardinals was entirely Alexander's, there was no difficulty about carrying his point.
And now let me ask you, do you know who is the cause that, instead of wearing this dress, which I can only put an at night, I am forced to disguise myself in the daytime in a cardinal's robe and hat, and pass my time trotting about from church to church, from consistory to consistory, when I ought properly to be leading a magnificent army in the battlefield, where you would enjoy a captain's rank, instead of being the chief of a few miserable sbirri?
He saw that the blow which struck at his house came from that very house itself and then his despair was changed to madness: he ran through the rooms of the Vatican like a maniac, and entering the consistory with torn garments and ashes on his head, he sobbingly avowed all the errors of his past life, owning that the disaster that struck his offspring through his offspring was a just chastisement from God.
June, therefore, it was decided to call a consistory which was to declare Frederic deposed from the throne of Naples.
So, since on the 1st of May in the preceding year the pope had pronounced sentence of forfeiture in full consistory against Julius Caesar of Varano, as punishment for the murder of his brother Rudolph and for the harbouring of the pope's enemies, and he had accordingly been mulcted of his fief of Camerino, which was to be handed over to the apostolic chamber, Caesar left Rome to put the sentence in execution.
Quite so, Foster, and if you'll but check you'll find that their main Consistory is located, even now, in Jerusalem and has been for five hundred years within Palestine.
Bishop Baronious, in the last conclave, by his persistence found means to save the Consistory from the election by 'adoration' of another candidate whose life would bear no scrutiny and who never darkened the doors of his own cathedral!
From the Consistory, from the Senate, from the University, from the Foundling Hospital, the Suffragan has sent.
A severe inquisition, which was taken by the Praetorian vicar, and the proconsul of Africa, the report of two episcopal visitors who had been sent to Carthage, the decrees of the councils of Rome and of Arles, and the supreme judgment of Constantine himself in his sacred consistory, were all favorable to the cause of Caecilian.