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Definition of Consistories
1. consistory [n] - See also: consistory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consistories
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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