different between reformed vs consistory

English

Verb

reformed

1. simple past tense and past participle of reform

Adjective

reformed (comparative more reformed, superlative most reformed)

1. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Martin Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
2. Amended in character and life.

   a reformed gambler or drunkard

3. (Britain, military, of an officer) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.

Anagrams

• deformer

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.