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- Noun. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any 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.
- Noun. (obsolete) A civil court of justice.
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