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church-court
An ecclesiastical court; in Scotland, the courts of Kirk-Session, Presbytery, Synod, and General Assembly.
1839Candlish in Life iv. (1880) 94 Their record with this deliverance had come up to the superior Church Courts. 1851Carlyle Sterling i. i. (1872) 2 Which had little business to be spoken of in any Church-court. 18582nd Suppl. Penny Cycl. 123/1 The famous ‘Veto Act’, the design of which was to modify the action of the system of patronage of livings in the Church of Scotland, by enabling the Church Courts to reject any nominee of a patron on the ground of his being displeasing to the majority of the congregation. |