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consistorial, a.|kɒnsɪˈstɔərɪəl|
[ad. med.L. consistōriāl-is, f. consistōri-um: see -al1. So F. consistorial.]
Of or pertaining to a consistory.
1. Of or pertaining to a bishop's consistory.
c1450Holland Howlat 225 The crovss Capone, a clerk vnder cleir weides..Was officiale..In caussis consistoriale. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. I. 249 [He] practiced the Civil Law in..the Court of Arches..Prerogative, and Consistoral of the Bishop of London. 1726Ayliffe Parerg. 163 An Official or Chancellor, has the same Consistorial Audience with the Bishop himself that deputes him. 1805East Reports V. 343 The consistorial court of the archdeaconry of Wells. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 292/2 The consistorial courts of the bishops of the Church of England are now but ‘the shadows of great names’.
b. In Scotland, ‘applied to the commisary-court, lately abolished, which came in place of the bishops' court’ (W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 1861).
2. Of or pertaining to church government by consistories; Genevan, presbyterian.
1561Reg. St. Andrews Kirk Sess. (1889) I. 104 The consistoriall howse. 1593R. Bancroft Dang. Positions iv. iii. 140 Here you haue Allobrogicall and Consistoriall stuffe. 1675R. Barclay Apol. Quakers ii. §14. 59 Profane Malignants..accuse the Holy Consistorial and Presbyterian Government. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1640/4 We shall..be ever ready to maintain Your Majesties undoubted Supremacy against all Papal, Consistorial, or Democratical pretentions. 1816Keatinge Trav. II. 220 The protestants..have now..a consistorial church for every six thousand souls. Five such churches complete the circuit of a synod. 1889A. H. Drysdale Hist. Presbyt. Eng. 413 The consistorial or presbyterian form of polity.
3. Of or pertaining to the Papal Consistory.
1707Lond. Gaz. No. 4303/1 The Pope has appointed a Consistorial Congregation to meet the 27th Instant. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 25 The Pope..gave orders to Aldobrandin, the consistorial advocate, to finish the process..against Philip. 1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 292/2 His Holiness nominates in secret consistory to all consistorial benefices.
Hence consiˈstorially adv., in consistory.
1624Gataker Transubst. 110 Consistorially to censure and to determine truth in matter of faith. 1752Carte Hist. Eng. III. 89 That he might..send publickly for a legate to determine the cause consistorially. |