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- Synod - n. - An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
- Synod - n. - An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative body.
- Synod - n. - A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
- Synodal - a. - Synodical.
- Synodal - n. - A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
- Synodal - n. - A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
- Synodic - a. - Alt. of Synodical
- Synodical - a. - Of or pertaining to a synod; transacted in, or authorized by, a synod; as, synodical proceedings or forms.
- Synodical - a. - Pertaining to conjunction, especially to the period between two successive conjunctions; extending from one conjunction, as of the moon or a planet with the sun, to the next; as, a synodical month (see Lunar month, under Month); the synodical revolution of the moon or a planet.
- Synodically - adv. - In a synodical manner; in a synod; by the authority of a synod.
- Synodist - n. - An adherent to a synod.
- Presbytery - n. - 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. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
- Remonstrant - n. - one of the Arminians who remonstrated against the attacks of the Calvinists in 1610, but were subsequently condemned by the decisions of the Synod of Dort in 1618. See Arminian.
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