English Dictionary

consistory

IPA（発音記号）

/kənˈsɪstəɹi/

名詞

廃用

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.

日本語の意味

（会衆や聖職者が）集まる場所、または厳粛な会合・評議会として用いられる場所。 / 教区司教が大聖堂などで、自身の宰相や委任者と共に開く、宗教上または聖職に関する裁判所（聖会議としての側面）。

The consistory convened in the old stone hall to mediate disputes among the villagers.

評議会は古い石造りの広間に集まり、村人たちの間の争いを仲裁した。

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.

consistories （ plural ）