Usually means: Meetings of cardinals with pope.
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  1. consistories: Merriam-Webster
  2. consistories: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. consistories: Collins English Dictionary
  4. consistories: Vocabulary.com
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  6. consistories: Wiktionary
  7. Consistories, consistories: Dictionary.com
  8. Consistories: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Consistories: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. consistories: FreeDictionary.org
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  1. consistories: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (consistory)

noun:  A solemn assembly or council.
noun:  The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
noun:  An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
noun:  A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
noun:  (obsolete, Early Modern) A civil court of justice.
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