Tribunal vs Consistory - What's the difference?
tribunal | consistory |
An assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law.
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 nouns the difference between tribunal and consistory
is that tribunal is an assembly including one or more judges to conduct judicial business; a court of law while consistory is primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.tribunal
English
(wikipedia tribunal)Noun
(en noun)Anagrams
* ----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)
