To council summons all his mighty peers, / Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved, / A gloomy consistory.
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Consistory
//kənˈsɪstəɹi//
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1860-1876, Walter Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin
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Pius […][was] then hearing of causes in consistory.
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And so were many greate and heighnous maters Obiected against S. Ambrose, because he refused to haue the cause betwene himselfe and the Heretike Auxentius, to be tried in the Consistorie of the Emperour, before Secular Iudges.
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