Synod Definition

sĭnəd
synods
noun
An ecclesiastical council.
Webster's New World
A high governing body in certain Christian churches.
Webster's New World
A district governed or represented by a Protestant synod.
Webster's New World
Any assembly or council.
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(astronomy) A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.

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Noun

Singular:
synod
Plural:
synods

Origin of Synod

  • Middle English from Latin synodus from Greek sunodos meeting, assembly sun- syn- hodos way, course

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Ancient Greek σύνοδος (sunodos, “assembly, meeting"), from σύν (sun, “with") (English syn-) + ὁδός (hodos, “way, path").

    From Wiktionary

Synod Sentence Examples

  • The acts of the synod of Pistoia were published in Italian and Latin at Pavia in 1788.

  • On the 21st of August 1715 he summoned all the preachers in the Cevennes and Lower Languedoc to a conference or synod near the village of Monoblet.

  • Synods were held in 1718, 1723, 1726 and 1727; and in a remote spot in Bas Languedoc in 1 744 a national synod assembled - the first since 1660 - which consisted of representatives from every province formerly Protestant.

  • These articles, however, never came into operation; and the decisions of the synod of Dort in 1578, which made the Church independent were equally fruitless.

  • In spite of the hostile attitude of the great majority of the bishops, Bishop de' Ricci issued on the 31st of July a summons to a diocesan synod, which was solemnly opened on the 18th of September.

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