English words for 'synodic; relating to a synod'
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noun
noun
- The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
- A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
- (mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
verb
- (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
- (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
- (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
- sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
- join together into a syndicate
- organize into or form a syndicate
adj
noun
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An assembly or meeting.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
verb
adj
noun
noun
- (Christianity) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
- a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business
- (astronomy) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
- An assembly or council having civil authority (formal); a legislative body.
- (Christianity) An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
noun
adj
verb
adj
noun
noun
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- Discussion or deliberation.
- a meeting of people for consultation
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
noun
- (Church of England) Initialism of parochial church council.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of pyridinium chlorochromate.
- (England and Wales) Initialism of police and crime commissioner.
- (statistics) Initialism of Pearson correlation coefficient.
- (travel) Initialism of pseudo-city code (a short alpha-numeric code used to represent the location that a GDS is operated from.)
- (biochemistry) Initialism of protein-conducting channel.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police clearance certificate.
verb
adj
- Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.
- Characteristic of a church; churchy.
- Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.
- In accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
- resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church
noun
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
- An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
noun
- (later) In Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, an autonomous Orthodox church body (church, monastery, brotherhood, lavra, theological school) which does not answer to any local hierarch, but is ruled directly by the highest authority of the church, i.e. the primate of the said church (e.g. a Patriarch) or in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1918 by the Most Holy Synod. Similar to a personal prelature.
- (initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.
noun
- (by extension, in the plural) The congregation of a church.
- An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.
- Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.
- One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
- (colloquial, humorous) A chair; a seat.
- long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
intj
verb
noun
- a church tribunal or governing body
- An assembly of prelates; a session of the College of Cardinals at Rome.
- The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
- A solemn assembly or council.
- A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
adj
noun
noun
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- the office of elder
noun
noun
- (US, Congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary, permanent council made up of representatives of neighbouring Congregational churches for mutual advice and co-operation in ecclesiastical matters; also, a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
- (uncountable) Associating, or coming together in a union; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, politics) A power-sharing arrangement over territory entered into by competing groups.
- (countable, ecology) A subdivision of an association, made up chiefly of organisms of a single species.
- (uncountable) Intimate companionship or fellowship; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, Christianity) A confederation of Christian churches or organizations.
noun
- Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
- The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
- A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
- A body of elders in the early Christian church.
- The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
- building reserved for the officiating clergy
adj
noun
noun
noun
- The office or jurisdiction of a syndic; a body or council of syndics.
- A group of individuals or companies formed to transact some specific business, or to promote a common interest; a self-coordinating group.
- (crime) A group of gangsters engaged in organized crime.
- (mass media) A group of media companies, or an agency, formed to acquire content such as articles, cartoons, etc., and to publish it in multiple outlets; a chain of newspapers or other media outlets managed by such an organization.
- a loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities
- a news agency that sells features or articles or photographs etc. to newspapers for simultaneous publication
- an association of companies for some definite purpose
verb
- (intransitive) To become a syndicate.
- (transitive) To put under the control of a group acting as a unit.
- (transitive, mass media) To release media content through a syndicate to be broadcast or published through multiple outlets.
- sell articles, television programs, or photos to several publications or independent broadcasting stations
- join together into a syndicate
- organize into or form a syndicate
noun
- (ecclesiastical) An assembly of the clergy, by their representatives, to consult on ecclesiastical affairs.
- An assembly or meeting.
- An academic assembly, in which the business of a university is transacted.
- The act of calling or assembling by summons.
- (collective) A flock of eagles.
- a group gathered in response to a summons
- the act of convoking
noun
- an ecclesiastical assembly of the monks in a monastery or even of the canons of a church
- a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled
- a series of related events forming an episode
- a local branch of some fraternity or association
- any distinct period in history or in a person's life
- An organized branch of some society or fraternity, such as the Freemasons.
- An administrative division of an organization, usually local to a specific area.
- A sequence (of events), especially when presumed related and likely to continue.
- A bishop's council.
- An assembly of monks, prebendaries and/or other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.
- (Roman Catholicism) A prescribed reading at one of the canonical hours.
- A community of canons or canonesses.
- A section of a work, a collection of works, or fragments of works, often manuscripts or transcriptions, created by scholars or advocates, not the original authors, to aid in finding portions of the texts.
- A chapter house
- One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
- A meeting of a chapter of certain organized societies or orders.
verb
noun
- (Christianity) An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church matters.
- a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business
- (astronomy) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
- An assembly or council having civil authority (formal); a legislative body.
- (Christianity) An administrative division of churches, either the entire denomination, as in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or a mid-level division (middle judicatory, district) as in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
noun
adj
verb
noun
- (Christianity) Short for church council
- (Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrine
- (UK, metonymic) A local authority.
- A committee that leads or governs (e.g. city council, student council).
- Discussion or deliberation.
- a meeting of people for consultation
- a body serving in an administrative capacity
noun
- (Church of England) Initialism of parochial church council.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of pyridinium chlorochromate.
- (England and Wales) Initialism of police and crime commissioner.
- (statistics) Initialism of Pearson correlation coefficient.
- (travel) Initialism of pseudo-city code (a short alpha-numeric code used to represent the location that a GDS is operated from.)
- (biochemistry) Initialism of protein-conducting channel.
- (law enforcement) Initialism of police clearance certificate.
verb
noun
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
- A room in a church where the clergy put on their vestments and where these are stored; also used for meetings and classes.
- A committee of parishioners elected to administer the temporal affairs of a parish.
- An assembly of persons (ad hoc or recurrent) who manage parochial affairs; so called because usually held in a vestry.
noun
- (later) In Eastern Orthodoxy and Eastern Catholicism, an autonomous Orthodox church body (church, monastery, brotherhood, lavra, theological school) which does not answer to any local hierarch, but is ruled directly by the highest authority of the church, i.e. the primate of the said church (e.g. a Patriarch) or in the case of the Russian Orthodox Church between 1721 and 1918 by the Most Holy Synod. Similar to a personal prelature.
- (initially) In Eastern Orthodoxy, the placement of a cross by a bishop which symbolises his approval of the construction of a church or monastery on the site the cross is placed.
noun
- (by extension, in the plural) The congregation of a church.
- An enclosed compartment in a church which provides seating for a group of people, often a prominent family.
- Any structure shaped like a church pew, such as a stall, formerly used by money lenders, etc.; a box in a theatre; or a pen or sheepfold.
- One of the long benches in a church, seating several persons, usually fixed to the floor and facing the chancel.
- (colloquial, humorous) A chair; a seat.
- long bench with backs; used in church by the congregation
intj
verb
noun
- a church tribunal or governing body
- An assembly of prelates; a session of the College of Cardinals at Rome.
- The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
- A solemn assembly or council.
- A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
noun
- The collective body of (ecclesiastical) elders; a body or court of elders, a presbytery.
- The smallest administrative division in Lithuania, equivalent to a ward.
- The office or position of elder in a church.
- The position of being elder or senior; seniority, precedence of birth, primogeniture.
- (nonce word, as a mock title of honour) The personality of an elderly person.
- the office of elder
noun
noun
- (US, Congregationalism, specifically) A voluntary, permanent council made up of representatives of neighbouring Congregational churches for mutual advice and co-operation in ecclesiastical matters; also, a meeting of pastors and delegates from churches thus united.
- (uncountable) Associating, or coming together in a union; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, politics) A power-sharing arrangement over territory entered into by competing groups.
- (countable, ecology) A subdivision of an association, made up chiefly of organisms of a single species.
- (uncountable) Intimate companionship or fellowship; (countable) an instance of this.
- (countable, Christianity) A confederation of Christian churches or organizations.
noun
- Presbyters collectively; the body of presbyters of a congregation.
- The district (jurisdiction) of those presbyters.
- A section of a church reserved for the clergy, containing the altar.
- A body of elders in the early Christian church.
- The home of a Roman Catholic parish priest.
- building reserved for the officiating clergy
adj
adj
noun
adj
noun
adj
- Pertaining to or relating to the church, its government, forms, or ceremonies; ecclesiastical.
- Characteristic of a church; churchy.
- Devoted to, or inclined to attach great importance to, the order and ritual of a particular section of the Christian church.
- In accordance with ecclesiastical standards or ceremonies; appropriate for or befitting a church.
- resembling or suggesting or appropriate to a church