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Example sentences for "consistory"

Lexicographically close words:
consistently; consisteth; consisting; consistorial; consistories; consists; consociated; consociation; consol; consolation
  1. The bell, now loaned to the Church of the Sea and Land, was given in a revisionary right to the consistory of the Collegiate church, in case it ever ceases to ring for a Protestant church.

  2. At the time of the erection of the consistory building the sidewalks around the whole property were flagged and the iron fence erected.

  3. But the new site at Park Avenue and Thirty-fifth Street did not find favor, and many were opposed to the whole project, so when in 1860 the consistory was to vote the first payment, the whole enterprise failed by one vote.

  4. Illustration: Organ] In 1843, on the land back of the church the "Consistory Building" was erected.

  5. Illustration: Platform in Old Consistory Building] In the basement in dingy quarters in the rear lived the sexton.

  6. And if Ireland be so poor as it is suggested, I hold, under correction, that this invisible consistory is the principal cause of the exhausting thereof.

  7. But this candidate comes forward nevertheless at a future consistory for the subsequent formalities.

  8. Most important of all these ceremonies is the public consistory held in one of the great halls of the Vatican, and before 1870 this was a "festa" of the first magnitude.

  9. A work widely different from either of these, Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, shared and has probably exceeded their popularity for similar reasons.

  10. Probably in no single case amongst our contemporaries could a high and permanent place in literature be prophesied with more confidence than in his.

  11. It is in a territory poles apart from Mr. Kipling's that the main stream of romantic poetry flows.

  12. They sent to the Consistory at Paris, and got a minister, and they are doing very well!

  13. He was one of the original members of the board of trade and for a number of years was member of the consistory of the American Reformed Church.

  14. There are interred there Revolutionary soldiers, members of consistory and many prominent citizens.

  15. He is at present the district deputy of the Thirteenth District of the Grand Lodge, a Thirty-second Degree Mason and grand marshal of the Consistory of New York City.

  16. Mr. Cathcart is a member of Delta Upsilon Fraternity and of the Blue Lodge, Chapter, Consistory and Mecca Temple of the Masonic Order; Lawson Hose Company No.

  17. He was a consistent Christian and for some years before his death was a member of the Consistory of the Reformed Church.

  18. Schroeder=, a pastor in the consistory of Wiesbaden in A.

  19. On the basis of its proceedings the upper consistory ordered the introduction of an admirable new hymnbook.

  20. Bible, and the consistory refused to sustain the call.

  21. Yet fifteen Lutheran pastors represented that they could not conscientiously accept this, and the upper consistory hastened to remove them from office shortly before the shutting of the gates, i.

  22. Louis Napoleon gave to the Reformed Church a central council in Paris with consistories and presbyteries; to the Lutheran, an annual general consistory as a legislative court and a standing directory as an administrative court.

  23. Ebrard sought and obtained liberty to resign, and even at the next synod, in 1869, the consistory went hand in hand with the liberal majority.

  24. Berlin chief consistory and all the provincial consistories, with full powers, not only over candidates, but also over all settled pastors.

  25. Gregory's remark at the close of the consistory when Montalto begged him to let the matter of Peretti's murder rest.

  26. But the consistory could not itself inflict punishment; that was the province of the civil government.

  27. He summoned a consistory of fourteen eminent Dominican theologians, to inquire into his conduct and opinions, and issued a brief forbidding him to preach, under penalty of excommunication.

  28. He preached daily every alternate week; he attended meetings of the Consistory and of the Court of Morals; he interested himself in the great affairs of his age; he wrote letters to all parts of Christendom.

  29. Bernheim, in his brochure "De la Circoncision," he being the surgeon of the Israelitish Consistory of Paris.

  30. So determined was this opposition in some instances that the Consistory of Paris found it necessary to impose on all the mohels an obligation, bound by an oath, that they would respect the law.

  31. Bernheim, the surgeon of the Israelitish Consistory of Paris, has operated on over eleven hundred circumcisions, besides the cases of phimosis occurring in his general practice.

  32. He was Professor of Medicine in the University of Moscow in Russia, and President of the Evangelical Consistory in that City.

  33. I think I told you before, that he was Professor of Medicine at the Russian University at Moscow, and also President of the Protestant Consistory in that city.

  34. On the other hand, the Consistory had decided that the doors were to be opened an hour sooner than usual, that the bells were not to be rung, and that the organ should be silent.

  35. The Consistory handed over the victims to be condemned by the Council, which Calvin ruled through the Consistory just as Robespierre ruled the Convention through the Jacobin Club.

  36. He formed in the Consistory a perfect Calvinist inquisition, exactly like the revolutionary tribunal instituted by Robespierre.

  37. Of that Consistory the Administrator was a Utraquist Priest; the next in rank was a Brethren's Bishop; the total number of members was twelve; and of these twelve only three were Brethren.

  38. We stand," he said, "one and all by the Confession of 1575, and we do not know a single person who is prepared to submit to the Consistory at Prague.

  39. At one time the Russian General Consistory forbade the Brethren's Diaspora work in Livonia {1859.

  40. Now round about in this consistory Much mayst thou contemplate, if these my words Be gathered up, without all further aid.

  41. In a consistory of the 22d of May, the Tuscan question came up, but the pope refused to approve the brief, and dismissed the consistory until the following day.

  42. On this behalf each consistory appoints its own treasurer.

  43. At an election of an elder for the first time he is required before installation to undergo an examination by a commission from the consistory of his own parish, assisted by a pastor from the nearest adjoining parish.

  44. The Consistory is composed of the pastor, who presides, the elders, and the deacons, the last of whom have only a deliberative vote.

  45. It is always presided over by the pastor, or, in his unavoidable absence, by a member of the consistory chosen for the purpose.

  46. Delegates from the table of the Vaudois Church, the consistory of Turin, and all the representatives of Protestant states, together with a numerous concourse of sympathizers and lookers-on, were present.

  47. In the latter half of July, Innocent held a consistory on the condition of affairs in Naples.

  48. On March 6 he spoke very strongly in the secret consistory in opposition to Cardinal La Balue, who was charged by France with supporting the interests of the Duke of Lorraine.

  49. He was summoned before it at the beginning of August, when he was forced to admit he had been wont to kiss the lady to whom he wrote on platonic love, and the Consistory suspended him from the exercise of his priestly functions for a month.

  50. In 1833, the Saratow consistory was dissolved, and he retired to St. Petersburg, where he was appointed general superintendent of the Lutheran community in the capital.

  51. Nevertheless it was not produced at the hearing of the case for jactitation in the Consistory Court.

  52. He died before the edition was completed; and as soon as Northumberland's failure and Mary's accession were known at Rome, England was looked upon in the Consistory {p.

  53. He is a member of the Supreme Council, having taken all the Scottish rites up to the 33d degree, and is an active member of the Massachusetts Consistory S.

  54. Amongst Bach's duties at Weimar was that of composing and conducting a certain number of sacred pieces every year, to texts by Franck, the secretary to the Superior Consistory of the Principality of Weimar, and librarian to the duke.

  55. The first thing we hear of him relates to a kind of action for breach of promise of marriage brought before the Consistory at Arnstadt by Anna Cunigunda Wiener, with whom he had "kept company" and exchanged rings.

  56. The Consistory allowed that there were faults on both sides, and hoped that by giving him more time than the eight days he would come to some agreement with the choir: but in vain.

  57. Sidenote: Cited to Appear] Bach outstaid his leave of absence by some three months, and on his return to Arnstadt in February 1706 received a "citation" to appear before the Consistory to explain his conduct.

  58. Bach simply reported to the superintendent of the Consistory that the Council had forbidden the performance; and thus produced another quarrel between the two bodies which was to his advantage.

  59. A sum of five guelden was due to him as salary, but he requested the Consistory to pay this to his cousin Ernst,[23] who had formerly assisted him, but who was now ill and poor.


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    Other words:
    conclave; conference; convention; convocation; council; presbytery; session; synod; vestry