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plural dicasteries
A ministry or department of the Roman Curia of the Holy See, whether administrative or ecclesiastical. quotations examples
The dicastery will continue to oversee the appointment of bishops in the mission territories. … There is no longer a distinction between congregations and pontifical councils because all the Vatican’s main departments are now defined as dicasteries.
2022 March 21, Andrea Gagliarducci, “Praedicate evangelium: Things you might have missed in the new Vatican constitution”, in Catholic News Agency, Denver: EWTN News, retrieved 2022-03-25
A judicial body of the ancient Athenian state, made up of dicasts. quotations examples
The better cause has conquered; and there is at least this advantage to the Athenian legal system, there will be no appeal nor tedious technicalities before a "higher court." The verdict of the dicastery is final.
1910, William Stearns Davis, A Day in Old Athens