consistory vs meeting

consistory

noun
  • 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. 

meeting

noun
  • 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. 

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