Reformed vs Consistory - What's the difference?
reformed | consistory |
(reform)
Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from (Martin Luther) on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
* Macaulay
Amended in character and life.
(UK, military, of an officer) Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop.
Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
* Milton
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
* Francis Bacon
A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
(obsolete) A civil court of justice.
As a verb reformed
is (reform).As an adjective reformed
is corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of protestant churches originating in the reformation, or, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from (martin luther) on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc, and carried the reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.As a noun consistory is
primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.reformed
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The town was one of the strongholds of the Reformed faith.
- a reformed gambler or drunkard
consistory
English
Noun
(consistories)- To council summons all his mighty peers, / Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, / A gloomy consistory .
- (Hook)
- Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory .
- (Chaucer)
