congregation

1. Congregation
   (R. C. Ch) A body of cardinals or other ecclesiastics to whom as intrusted some department of the church business; as, the Congregation of the Propaganda, which has charge of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church.
2. Congregation
   A collection or mass of separate things. "A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors."
3. Congregation
   (R. C. Ch) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision of a monastic order.
4. Congregation
   An assembly of persons; a gathering; esp. an assembly of persons met for the worship of God, and for religious instruction; a body of people who habitually so meet. "He [Bunyan] rode every year to London, and preached there to large and attentive congregations ."
5. Congregation
   The act of congregating, or bringing together, or of collecting into one aggregate or mass. "The means of reduction in the fire is but by the congregation of homogeneal parts."
6. Congregation
   The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
7. Congregation
   (Scotch Church Hist) the name assumed by the Protestant party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves (1557Lords of the Congregation.
8. Congregation
   (Anc. Jewish Hist) The whole body of the Jewish people; -- called also Congregation of the Lord. "It is a sin offering for the congregation ."

1. (n) congregation
   The act of congregating; the act of bringing together or assembling; aggregation.
2. (n) congregation
   Any collection or assemblage of persons or things.
3. (n) congregation
   Specifically In the Old Testament, the whole body of the Hebrews, as a community gathered and set apart for the service of God; in the New Testament, the Christian church in general, or a particular assemblage of worshipers.
4. (n) congregation
   In modern use, an assemblage of persons for religious worship and instruction; in a restricted sense, a number of persons organized or associated as a body for the purpose of holding religious services in common. See parish and society.
5. (n) congregation
   Formerly, in the English colonies of North America, a parish, hundred, town, plantation, or other settlement.
6. (n) congregation
   In the Rom. Cath. Ch.: One of the committees of cardinals appointed by the pope to aid him in the transaction of the business of the church. The decisions of these congregations are ordinarily regarded as equivalent to decisions of the pope himself. There are eleven regular congregations, namely: the Congregation of the Consistory, which prepares the business to be brought before the consistory or assembly of all the cardinals (see consistory, 4);
7. (n) congregation
   A religious community bound together by a common rule, but not by the solemn and irrevocable vows which characterize the monastic orders. Among them are the Oratorians, the Dames Anglaises, the Fathers of the Mission or Lazarists, the Oblates, the Passionists, the Redemptorists, the Marists, and the Christian Brothers. (See Christian Brothers, under Christian.)
8. (n) congregation
   A group of monasteries which agree to practise the rules of their order more strictly in their respective houses, and unite themselves together by closer ties, such as the congregations of Cluny and St. Maur.
9. (n) congregation
   A committee of bishops appointed by the pope, or with his approbation, to prepare rules of business, etc., for a general council. In the General Council of Constance the congregation was differently constituted, the Council being divided into congregations according to the nationalities represented—German, French, Italian, English, and subsequently Spanish. These voted separately, preliminary to the final action of the Council as a whole.
10. (n) congregation
    See Lords of the Congregation, below.
11. (n) congregation
    In universities, the body of the masters regent. The great congregation is the body of all the masters, regent and not regent. The house of congregation is the assembly of the congregation. The function of the congregation is to grant degrees, graces, and dispensations. But in some universities from the first, and in others at present, the congregation has been otherwise constituted and has additional functions.
12. (n) congregation
    In falconry, a flock or flight of plovers.
13. (n) congregation
    The coming together of the elements of a population by immigration, as opposed to the growth of a population by a birth-rate in excess of a death-rate. It is an aggregation of individuals or of families that have not been living together from their birth, and that therefore come together as partial or entire strangers. Giddings, Prin. of Sociol., p. 91. See genetic aggregation.

1. (n) Congregation
   the act of congregating: an assemblage of persons or things:
2. (n) Congregation
   (O.T.) a name given to the children of Israel: a body of people united to worship in a particular church: the name given to the body of Protestant Reformers in Scotland in the time of Mary

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