consessus

alternative Consessus

1. obsoleteAn assembly or congregation of people, especially in religious contexts.

   Strauss mentions the custom, that the scholars of the Rabbis in the consessus were wont to stand.

   1863, Johannes Heinrich August Ebrard, The Gospel History: A Compendium of Critical Investigations in Support of the Historical Character of the Four Gospels, page 190

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   And to the same purpose he writes concerning Numidicus, Ep. 40, viz. that his will was that Numidicus should be listed in the number of Carthaginian Presbyters, and sit with him," no doubt in the [consessus] in the consistory or Ecclesiastical senate.

   1846, The Works of the Right Rev. John Sage, page 379

   The consessus of Haririus present an analogy to this; and the traditional סיעה at the court of Hezekiah.

   1862, Samuel Davidsohn, An Introduction to the Old Testament, Critical, Historical and Theological, Containing a Discussion of the Most Important Questions Belonging to the Several Books, page 356