A confidential or secret meeting.
Roget 995:
church,
churchdom;
ministry,
apostleship†,
priesthood,
prelacy,
hierarch†,
church government,
christendom,
pale of the church.
clericalism,
sacerdotalism†,
episcopalianism,
ultramontanism†;
theocracy;
ecclesiology†,
ecclesiologist†;
priestcraft†,
odium theologicum [Lat.].
monachism†,
monachy†;
monasticism,
monkhood†.
[Ecclesiastical offices and dignities]
pontificate,
primacy,
archbishopric†,
archiepiscopacy†;
prelacy;
bishopric,
bishopdom†;
episcopate,
episcopacy;
see,
diocese;
deanery,
stall;
canonry,
canonicate†;
prebend,
prebendaryship†;
benefice,
incumbency,
glebe,
advowson†,
living,
cure;
rectorship†;
vicariate,
vicarship;
deaconry†,
deaconship†;
curacy;
chaplain,
chaplaincy,
chaplainship;
cardinalate,
cardinalship†;
abbacy,
presbytery.
holy orders,
ordination,
institution,
consecration,
induction,
reading in,
preferment,
translation,
presentation.
popedom†;
the Vatican,
the apostolic see;
religious sects
etc.
984.
council
etc.
696;
conclave,
convocation,
synod,
consistory,
chapter,
vestry;
sanhedrim,
conge d'elire [Fr.];
ecclesiastical courts,
consistorial court,
court of Arches.
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Roget 72:
assemblage;
collection,
collocation,
colligation†;
compilation,
levy,
gathering,
ingathering,
muster,
attroupement†;
team;
concourse,
conflux†,
congregation,
contesseration†,
convergence
etc.
290;
meeting,
levee,
reunion,
drawing room,
at home;
conversazione [It]
etc.
(social gathering)
892;
assembly,
congress;
convention,
conventicle;
gemote†;
conclave
etc.
(council)
696;
posse,
posse comitatus [Lat.];
Noah's ark.
miscellany,
collectanea†;
museum,
menagerie
etc.
(store)
636;
museology†.
crowd,
throng,
group;
flood,
rush,
deluge;
rabble,
mob,
press,
crush,
cohue†,
horde,
body,
tribe;
crew,
gang,
knot,
squad,
band,
party;
swarm,
shoal,
school,
covey,
flock,
herd,
drove;
atajo†;
bunch,
drive,
force,
mulada [U.S.];
remuda†;
roundup [U.S.];
array,
bevy,
galaxy;
corps,
company,
troop,
troupe,
task force;
army,
regiment
etc.
(combatants)
726;
host
etc.
(multitude)
102;
populousness.
clan,
brotherhood,
fraternity,
sorority,
association
etc.
(party)
712.
volley,
shower,
storm,
cloud.
group,
cluster,
Pleiades,
clump,
pencil;
set,
batch,
lot,
pack;
budget,
assortment,
bunch;
parcel;
packet,
package;
bundle,
fascine†,
fasces†,
bale;
seron†,
seroon†;
fagot,
wisp,
truss,
tuft;
shock,
rick,
fardel†,
stack,
sheaf,
haycock†;
fascicle,
fascicule†,
fasciculus [Lat.],
gavel,
hattock†,
stook†.
accumulation
etc.
(store)
636;
congeries,
heap,
lump,
pile,
rouleau†,
tissue,
mass,
pyramid;
bing†;
drift;
snowball,
snowdrift;
acervation†,
cumulation;
glomeration†,
agglomeration;
conglobation†;
conglomeration,
conglomerate;
coacervate [Chem],
coacervation [Chem],
coagmentation†,
aggregation,
concentration,
congestion,
omnium gaterum [Lat.],
spicilegium†,
black hole of Calcutta;
quantity
etc.
(greatness)
31.
collector,
gatherer;
whip,
whipper in.
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Roget 696:
council,
committee,
subcommittee,
comitia [Lat.],
court,
chamber,
cabinet,
board,
bench,
staff.
senate,
senatus [Lat.],
parliament,
chamber of deputies,
directory,
reichsrath [G.],
rigsdag,
cortes [Sp.],
storthing†,
witenagemote†,
junta,
divan,
musnud†,
sanhedrim;
classis†;
Amphictyonic council†;
duma [Rus.],
house of representatives;
legislative assembly,
legislative council;
riksdag†,
volksraad [G.],
witan†,
caput†,
consistory,
chapter,
syndicate;
court of appeal
etc.
(tribunal)
966;
board of control,
board of works;
vestry;
county council,
local board.
audience chamber,
council chamber,
state chamber.
cabinet council,
privy council;
cockpit,
convocation,
synod,
congress,
convention,
diet,
states-general.
[formal gathering of members of a council: script]
assembly,
caucus,
conclave,
clique,
conventicle;
meeting,
sitting,
seance,
conference,
convention,
exhibition,
session,
palaver,
pourparler,
durbar†,
house;
quorum;
council fire [U.S.],
powwow [U.S.],
primary [U.S.].
meeting,
assemblage
etc.
72.
[person who is member of a council]
member;
senator;
member of parliament,
M. P.;
councilor,
representative of the people;
assemblyman,
congressman;
councilman,
councilwoman,
alderman,
freeholder.
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