Definition of Consistories

1. Noun. (plural of consistory) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Consistories

1. consistory [n] - See also: consistory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Consistories

consisted
consisted in
consistence
consistences
consistencies
consistency
consistency principle
consistent
consistently
consistents
consisteth
consisting
consisting in
consistorial
consistorian
consistories (current term)
consistory
consists
consists in
consociate
consociated
consociates
consociating
consociation
consociational
consociationalism
consociations
consol
consolable
consolation

Literary usage of Consistories

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Until 1890 the consistories of Riga, Reval, and Oesel, each with a superintendent at the head, were retained side by side with those of Courland, Livonia, ..."

2. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"The consistories arose from the need of a competent tribunal to adjudicate upon questions relating to marriage and divorce. With the abolishing of the canon ..."

3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"The consistories arose from the need of a competent tribunal to adjudicate upon questions relating to marriage and divorce. With the abolishing of the canon ..."

4. Sights and Thoughts in Foreign Churches and Among Foreign Peoples by Frederick William Faber (1842)
"But now and then I caught a sentence ending with the words, " four several consistories;" and again the argument was taken up, and again it dwelt ..."

5. Haydn's Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information Relating to All Ages by Joseph Haydn, Benjamin Vincent (1889)
"consistories for regulating ecclesiastical discipline and ... Wittenberg in 1542 ; other consistories were established after the peace of Augsburg in 1555. ..."

6. Bradford's History "of Plimoth Plantation.": From the Original Manuscript by William Bradford, Massachusetts General Court, Massachusetts Office of the Secretary of State (1899)
"... office in admonitions & excommunications for publick scandals, publickly & before y* congregation ; theirs more privately, & in their consistories. 5. ..."

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