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elders

English

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /??ld?z/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /??ld?z/
  • Hyphenation: el?ders

Noun

elders

  1. plural of elder

Verb

elders

  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of elder

Anagrams

  • Edlers

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch elders, from older elre.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /??l.d?rs/
  • Hyphenation: el?ders

Adverb

elders

  1. elsewhere

Synonyms

  • ergens anders

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consistory

English

Etymology

From Old Northern French consistorie (secular tribunal) (Old French consistoire), and Late Latin consistorium (waiting room, meeting place of the imperial council). Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k?n?s?st??i/

Noun

consistory (plural consistories)

  1. A place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
  2. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
    • 1860-1876, Walter Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury
      In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin
  3. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
  4. A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
  5. (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (obsolete) A civil court of justice.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

References

  • consistory in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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