"Consistories" is a word in ENGLISH

In English law. An ecclesiastical court, held in the cathedral of each diocese, tlie judge whereof is the bishop’s chancellor, …

An ecclesiastical body or judicatory in certain churches, as the Reformed Dutch. It is intermediate between the consistory and the …

Of or pertaining to a consistory.

Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.

A civil court of justice.

A church tribunal or governing body.

Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

In ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the pope

Courts held by diocesan bishops within their several cathedrals, for tbe trlal of eccleslastlcal causes arising within thelr respective dioceses. …

A noun suffix denoting that which pertains to, or serves for; as in ambulatory, that which serves for walking; consistory, …