Defn: A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor.
Power to reject in an authoritative or judicatory way.
Defn: Pertaining to the administration of justice; dispensing justice; judicial; as, judicatory tribunals.
Of this stamp were the most of them, who, without any public acknowledgment of that horrid affront they had put upon the church's true Head, dared to constitute and act as the supreme judicatory of the church of Christ, anno 1690.
The response of the supreme judicatory was in this case as ambiguous as on any former occasion.
This gave rise to a petition addressed to the supreme judicatory of the church.
The first judicatory higher than a consistory, among this people, was a Cœtus, formed in 1747.
But they declined their authority, as being no lawful judicatory of Jesus Christ, whilst thus made up of those who were actually indulged.
If the offending judicatory neglect to hear this, we ought to tell the offence to the church in the highest sense, that redress may be obtained--the apostle Paul declaring, that the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.
If then an inferior judicatory offend or injure us, we ought to carry the matter to another that has more influence and authority.
For this reason Lombroso would abolish trial by jury, which seems to him not a sign of progress towards better judicatory methods, but a clumsy survival of primitive justice as administered by barbarous tribes and even gregarious animals.
It was not the mere killing of the sow, but the execution without a judicial decision, the insult and contempt of the magistracy and the judicatory by arrogating their functions, that excited the public wrath and official indignation.
Though only one of the members of a large judicatory he was not the less accountable.
In one respect this judicatory differed from the Jewish council, for it was not limited to seventy members.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "judicatory" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
