synodical

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There are usually two or three synodical sessions per year, which are officially opened by the monarch.

From The Guardian • Feb. 4, 2020

He brushed up his reading technique on the minutes of synodical conferences.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Fifth General Council, held at Constantinople under the Emperor Justinian, in 553, a.d. examined the tenets of Origen, and passed a synodical decree condemnatory of them.

From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by Ryle, John Charles

If the interval of periodic time of a planet, or comet, be taken in reference to its passages through either of the nodes, its circuit is called synodical.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Must all the synodical debates, and all the grave parliamentary consultations, resolve themselves into Mr Coleman's way, like Jordan into Mare Mortuum.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George