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con|sis|to|ry «kuhn SIHS tuhr ee», noun, plural -ries.

1. a court of clergymen formed to decide church matters, such as a senate of cardinals presided over by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, a diocesan court in the Church of England presided over by the bishop, or a governing board in some Reformed churches corresponding to the session of the Presbyterian Church; church council.

2. the meeting of a church council or court.

3. the place where it meets.

4. a council of 32nd-degree Freemasons.

5. Historical or Poetic. a meeting of councilors, especially that of the Roman emperors or of the Olympian deities.

6. Obsolete. a council chamber.

╂[< Old North French consistorie, learned borrowing from Latin consistōrium place of assembly < consistere; see etym. under consist (Cf. ↑consist)]