consistorially

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adverb

In a consistorial manner.

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Meanings

adverbconsistorially (not comparable)
  1. not comparableIn a consistorial manner.

    Thus we have the key of knowledge or doctrine (clavis dogmatike), which is used individually by the minister, and also consistorially and synodically; […]

    1997, W[illiam] D[avid] J[ohn] McKay, “[The Courts of the Church] The Elements of Ecclesiastical Power”, in An Ecclesiastical Republic: Church Government in the Writings of George Gillespie (Rutherford Studies in Historical Theology), Carlisle, Cumbria: Paternoster Press for Rutherford House, →ISBN, page 90
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    The gloſſe vppon the Bull of Iubileie firſt graunted by Pope Boniface 8. ſaith that the Pope declared conſiſtorially, that penances inioyned before, are alſo taken away by commutation of the ſatisfactorie worke in this pardon preſcribed, and that vowes alſo, except the vow of Ieruſalem, are taken away by this pardon, […]

    [1586], William Fulke, “That the Church of God meaneth not to make all men partakers of the pardons which would seeme to be releeued thereby, […]”, in A Confutation of a Treatise Made by William Allen in Defence of the Vsurped Power of Popish Priesthood to Remit Sinnes, […], [Cambridge, Cambridgeshire]: […] Thomas Thomas Printer to the Vniuersitie of Cambridge, pages 469–470

    Under this system the consistories wielded a legal monopoly over the expression of Judaism in France; only consistorially approved public worship was authorized.

    1998, Paula E[llen] Hyman, “The Napoleonic Synthesis”, in The Jews of Modern France (Jewish Communities in the Modern World; 1), Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, →ISBN, page 45

Origin

From consistorial + -ly.

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Translations

French consistorialement
  • consistorialementin a consistorial manner
Polish konsystorsko
  • konsystorskoin a consistorial manner
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