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synod

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syn·od  (snd)
n.
1. A council or an assembly of church officials or churches; an ecclesiastical council.
2. A council or an assembly.
[Middle English, from Latin synodus, from Greek sunodos, meeting, assembly : sun-, syn- + hodos, way, course.]
synod·al (sn-dl) adj.
synod
Noun
a special church council which meets regularly to discuss church affairs [Greek sunodos]
Synod an assembly of the clergy; of ministers or elders.
Examples: synod of greedy caterpillars, 1580; of cooks, 1763; of peers, 1849; of prelates; of all sweets, 1649.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.synodsynod - a council convened to discuss ecclesiastical business
council - a meeting of people for consultation; "emergency council"


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When they prayed for the Imperial family and the Synod, she bowed very low and made the sign of the cross, saying to herself that even if she did not understand, still she could not doubt, and at any rate loved the governing Synod and prayed for it.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
But be all this as it may; let the unseen, ambiguous synod in the air, or the vindictive princes and potentates of fire, have to do or not with earthly Ahab, yet, in this present matter of his leg, he took plain practical procedures; --he called the carpenter.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
A synod was convened; that is to say, an assemblage of all the ministers in Massachusetts.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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