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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
synod
noun
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▪ A synod or convention back in 1662 found the majority of ministers ready to compromise.
▪ A large minority of bishops at a 1980 synod on the family, meanwhile, asked that the encyclical be reconsidered.
▪ One other and not unrelated feature of these Edwardian synods deserves note.
▪ The clergy, however, preferred to discuss these matters in provincial clerical synods where they governed the procedures and priorities.
▪ There were only a few dozen synagogues and fewer rabbis, yet the synod took two decades to convene.
▪ They held their own diocesan synods, ordained clergy, confirmed children and heard certain cases in their courts.
▪ This he achieved, securing the right for the curia to receive appeals, summon synods and approve bishops.
▪ We pray for the general synod as it meets shortly, for wise decisions and clear leadership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Synod

Synod \Syn"od\ (s[i^]n"[u^]d), n. [L. synodus, Gr. sy`nodos a meeting; sy`n with + "odo`s a way; cf. AS. sino[eth], seno[eth], F. synode, both from the Latin.]

  1. (Eccl. Hist.) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.

    Note: Synods are of four kinds: 1. General, or ecumenical, which are composed of bishops from different nations; -- commonly called general council.

  2. National, composed of bishops of one nation only.

  3. Provincial, in which the bishops of only one province meet; -- called also convocations.

  4. Diocesan, a synod in which the bishop of the diocese or his representative presides. Among Presbyterians, a synod is composed of several adjoining presbyteries. The members are the ministers and a ruling elder from each parish.

    2. An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.

    It hath in solemn synods been decreed, Both by the Syracusians and ourselves, To admit no traffic to our adverse towns.
    --Shak.

    Parent of gods and men, propitious Jove! And you, bright synod of the powers above.
    --Dryden.

    3. (Astron.) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies. [R.]
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
synod

late 14c., "ecclesiastical council," from Late Latin synodus, from Greek synodos "assembly, meeting; a coming together, conjunction of planets," from syn- "together" (see syn-) + hodos "a going, a way" (see cede). Earlier in English as sinoth (early 12c.). Used by Presbyterians for "assembly of ministers and other elders" from 1593 to c.1920, when replaced by General Council.

Wiktionary
synod

n. 1 An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters. 2 An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the (w: Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod), or a mid-level division ((w: middle judicatory), district) as in the (w: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) 3 An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body. 4 (context astronomy English) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly body.

WordNet
synod

n. a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business

Wikipedia
Synod

A synod historically is a council of a church, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. In modern usage, the word often refers to the governing body of a particular church, whether its members are meeting or not. It is also sometimes used to refer to a church that is governed by a synod.

The word "synod" comes from the Greek "σύνοδος" (synodos) meaning "assembly" or "meeting", and it is synonymous with the Latin word "concilium" meaning "council". Originally, synods were meetings of bishops, and the word is still used in that sense in Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy.

Sometimes the phrase "general synod" or "general council" refers to an ecumenical council. The word "synod" also refers to the standing council of high-ranking bishops governing some of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox churches. Similarly, the day-to-day governance of patriarchal and major archiepiscopal Eastern Catholic Churches are entrusted to a permanent synod.

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People would complete his mission, even if they must wrest it from his own apostate race, and die Synod had elevated the son of a lowly mining engineer to the primacy of New New Hebrides to oversee that completion.

This is the chalice from which the assembled prelates of Phos drank together in ritual renunciation of Skotos at the great synod not long after the High Temple was built.

Without expecting the royal license, he escaped from his guards, precipitately embarked, deserted the imperfect synod, and retired to his episcopal fortress of safety and independence.

But as the debates of so tumultuous an assembly could not have been directed by the authority of reason, or influenced by the art of policy, the Persian synod was reduced, by successive operations, to forty thousand, to four thousand, to four hundred, to forty, and at last to seven Magi, the most respected for their learning and piety.

I told you that the Synod had identified you as a nexus in the reticulum, a critical junction.

The building of the skete was a radical departure from the Spiritual Regulations of the Holy Synod, which had banned such hermitages since 1721.

Impatient of a delay, which he stigmatized as voluntary and culpable, Cyril announced the opening of the synod sixteen days after the festival of Pentecost.

The surviving Synod had gotten together, canonized its dead Prophet, anointed a new Prophet in his stead, and announced its determination to pursue the jihad even unto martyrdom.

In 850 the synod of Pavia resolved that all who refused to submit to the discipline of the Church should be anathematised, and cut off from every Christian hope and consolation.

With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.

It was during this truce that the best-known events of Dutch history occurred--the Synod of Dort, the suppression of the Republicans and Arminians by Maurice of Nassau, when he put Olden Barnevelt to death, and compelled the most illustrious of all Dutchmen, Grotius, to make his escape packed in a box of books.

Happily, the sainted Bishop Ambrose had the foresight to weight that synod with other Athanasian bishops.

The Saxon colonists in this state welcomed the Reformation, formally recognizing the Augsburg Confession in a synod of 1572.

The patriotic Cyprian, who ruled with the most absolute sway the church of Carthage and the provincial synods, opposed with resolution and success the ambition of the Roman pontiff, artfully connected his own cause with that of the eastern bishops, and, like Hannibal, sought out new allies in the heart of Asia.

I found accounts of the Synod of Whitby that ousted the Culdee or Irish version of Christianity.