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Consistory vs Classis - What's the difference?

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In context|obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between consistory and classis

is that consistory is (obsolete) a civil court of justice while classis is (obsolete) a class or order; sort; kind.

As nouns the difference between consistory and classis

is that consistory is primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council while classis is (obsolete) a class or order; sort; kind.

consistory

English

Noun

(consistories)
  • Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
  • * Milton
    • To council summons all his mighty peers, / Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, / A gloomy consistory .
  • The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
    • (Hook)
  • An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory .
  • A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
  • (obsolete) A civil court of justice.
    • (Chaucer)

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    classis

    English

    Noun

    (classes)
  • (obsolete) A class or order; sort; kind.
  • * Clarendon
    • His opinion of that classis of men.
  • (obsolete, religion) An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, such as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the synod, and corresponds to the presbytery in the Presbyterian church.
  • * 1982 , Keith L. Sprunger, Dutch Puritanism
    • At Utrecht and Breda there was strong pressure from the Dutch Reformed Church to exclude from employment British preachers who refused to take membership in the classis .
    (Webster 1913) ----