n. 集合, 聚集

[法] 集会, 人一, 红衣主教会议

Congregation \Con`gre*ga"tion\, n. [L. congregatio: cf. F.
congr['e]gation.]
1. 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. --Bacon.

2. A collection or mass of separate things.

A foul and pestilent congregation of vapors. --Shak.

3. 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.
--Macaulay.

4. (Anc. Jewish Hist.) The whole body of the Jewish people;
-- called also {Congregation of the Lord}.

It is a sin offering for the congregation. --Lev.
iv. 21.

5. (R. C. Ch.)
(a) 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.
(b) A company of religious persons forming a subdivision
of a monastic order.

6. The assemblage of Masters and Doctors at Oxford or
Cambrige University, mainly for the granting of degrees.
[Eng.]

7. (Scotch Church Hist.) the name assumed by the Protestant
party under John Knox. The leaders called themselves
(1557) Lords of the Congregation.