a. and sb. [ad. L. consistōriān-us, f. consistōrium: see -AN.]

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  A.  adj. † 1. = CONSISTORIAL 2. Obs.

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1593.  Abp. Bancroft, Dang. Positions, III. 16 (L.). Their own seditious and consistorian ways.

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1602.  W. Watson, Decacordon, 275. The Consistorian, Caluinian, Cartwrightian puritans rule the rost.

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1635.  F. White, Sabbath, Ep. Ded. (1636), 21. Their owne consistorian Regiment.

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1660.  Milton, Griffith’s Serm., Wks. (1851), 399. You next fall on the Consistorian Schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians.

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  † 2.  = CONSISTORIAL 1. Obs.

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1655.  Fuller, Ch. Hist., IV. ii. § 26. The University of Oxford [being] freed from Archiepiscopal Visitation … the Wicklivists therein escaped from Consistorian censure.

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  B.  sb.

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  † 1.  Occupier of a fixed spot; settled inhabitant. Obs. rare.

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1599.  Nashe, Lenten Stuffe (1871), 53. The consistorians, or settled standers of Yarmouth.

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  † 2.  A member of the Roman Emperor’s council.

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1609.  Holland, Amm. Marcell., 422 (R.). The præfect and the consistorians, were inclosed within the compass of the wals.

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  3.  A Presbyterian.

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1606.  Bp. Barlow, Serm. (1607). A iij b. Any Clerolaicall Consistorien, or Bench-Presbyterian.

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a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. 197 (D.). Our good King … would neither be for the Consistorians nor Congregationers.

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1889.  A. H. Drysdale, Hist. Presbyt. Eng., 5, note. Among the early names applied to the rising Presbyterians were the Disciplinarians and the Consistorians.

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  Hence † Consistorianly adv., after the manner of a Consistorian.

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1593.  Abp. Bancroft, Dang. Positions, I. vi. 29. Gibson hath penned this matter as Consistorianly as Catiline him selfe could haue done it.

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