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Justice vs Consistory - What's the difference?

justice | consistory |

As nouns the difference between justice and consistory

is that justice is the state or characteristic of being just or fair while consistory is primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

justice

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state or characteristic of being just or fair.
    • the justice of a description
  • * Shakespeare
    • This even-handed justice / Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice / To our own lips.
  • The ideal of fairness, impartiality, etc., especially with regard to the punishment of wrongdoing.
    • Justice was served.
  • Judgment and punishment of a party who has allegedly wronged another.
    • to demand justice
  • The civil power dealing with law.
    • Ministry of Justice
    the justice system
  • A judge of certain courts. Also capitalized as a title.
    • ''Mr. Justice Krever presides over the appellate court
  • Correctness, conforming to reality or rules.

    • Antonyms

    * injustice

    Derived terms

    * Chief Justice * commutative justice * distributive justice * divine justice * do justice * justice of the peace * poetic justice * puisne justice * strict justice

    Related terms

    * just * justiciable * justiciar * unjust

    See also

    * fairness

    External links

    * (wikipedia "justice")

    Statistics

    * English abstract nouns ----

    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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