A solemn assembly or council.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
A gathering of persons for a purpose; an assembly.
A place or instance of junction or intersection; a confluence.
The people at such a gathering.
The act of persons or things that meet.
An administrative unit in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).
An encounter between people, even accidental.