English Dictionary

consistory

/kənˈsɪstəɹi/

noun

A place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council. / The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

The consistory is where the council members gather to make important decisions.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin

意味（3）

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

Pius […][was] then hearing of causes in consistory.

意味（4）

A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.

意味（5）

(obsolete) A civil court of justice.