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Noun
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1. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
2. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
3. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
4. A church tribunal or governing body.
5. obsolete A civil court of justice.

References
R:Webster 1913

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