different between govern vs consistory

English

Etymology

From Middle English governen, governe, from Anglo-Norman and Old French governer, guverner, from Latin gubern?, from Ancient Greek ???????? (kuberná?, “I steer, drive, govern”)

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???v?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???v?n/
• Hyphenation: gov?ern
• Rhymes: -?v?(?)n

Verb

govern (third-person singular simple present governs, present participle governing, simple past and past participle governed)

1. (transitive) To make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

2. (transitive) To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.
   • 2016, Justin Deschamps, Find the strength, courage, and discipline to govern yourself or be governed by someone else.

     Find the strength, courage, and discipline to govern yourself or be governed by someone else.

3. (transitive) To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

4. (transitive) To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

5. (intransitive) To exercise political authority; to run a government.
6. (intransitive) To have or exercise a determining influence.
7. (transitive, grammar) To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

Related terms

• government
• governance
• governor
• governess

Translations

Noun

govern (plural governs)

1. The act of governing

Catalan

Etymology

From the verb governar, or possibly from Late Latin gubernus or gubernius, from Latin gubernum or gubern?.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?o?v??n/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?u?b?rn/

Noun

govern m (plural governs)

1. government

Related terms

• governar

References

Further reading

• “govern” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “govern” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “govern” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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.