consistory 的定义
plural con·sis·to·ries.
- any of various ecclesiastical councils or tribunals.
- the place where such a council or tribunal meets.
- the meeting of any such body.
- Roman Catholic Church. a solemn assembly of the whole body of cardinals, summoned and presided over by the pope.
- Anglican Church. a diocesan court for dealing with ecclesiastical and spiritual questions, held in the cathedral church and presided over by the bishop, the bishop's chancellor, or the commissary.
- the governing board of a local church or congregation.
- any assembly or council.
- Obsolete. a council chamber.
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- But at a consistory of cardinals in Vatican City on Monday, Francis made his case.
- He created in the Consistory a Calvinistic inquisition, absolutely similar to the revolutionary tribunal of Robespierre.
- This end of the transept was till quite recently railed off, and used as the consistory court of the Chancellor of Carlisle.
- On January 2, 1821, the property was finally deeded to the consistory.
- In 1843, on the land back of the church the "Consistory Building" was erected.
- But the consistory could not itself inflict punishment; that was the province of the civil government.