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CONSISTORY

Dictionary entry overview: What does consistory mean?

• CONSISTORY (noun)
The noun CONSISTORY has 1 sense:

1. a church tribunal or governing body

Familiarity information: CONSISTORY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CONSISTORY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A church tribunal or governing body

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("consistory" is a kind of...):

court; judicature; tribunal (an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business)

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