Govern vs Consistory - What's the difference?

As a verb govern

is to make and administer the public policy and affairs of; to exercise sovereign authority in.

primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

(en verb)

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

To control the actions or behavior of; to keep under control; to restrain.

Govern yourselves like civilized people.

a student who could not govern his impulses.

To exercise a deciding or determining influence on.

Chance usually governs the outcome of the game.

To control the speed, flow etc. of; to regulate.

a valve that governs fuel intake.

To exercise political authority; to run a government.

To have or exercise a determining influence.

To require that a certain preposition, grammatical case, etc. be used with a word; sometimes used synonymously with collocate.

(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)