"areopagy" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "After the Areopagus.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Last and Common Promoter of False Opinions, the Endeavours of Satan”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 39:",
          "text": "And herein though Socrates onely ſuffered, yet were Plato and Ariſtotle guilty of the ſame truth, who demonſtratively underſtanding the ſimplicity of perfection, and the indiviſible condition of the firſt cauſator, it was not in the power of earth, or Areopagy of hell to work them from it.",
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          "ref": "c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 101:",
          "text": "Conſcience only, that can ſee without Light, ſits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, ſurveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities[…]",
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        "secret tribunal, conclave"
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          "tribunal"
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          "conclave",
          "conclave"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) secret tribunal, conclave"
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  "word": "areopagy"
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  "etymology_text": "After the Areopagus.",
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          "ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Last and Common Promoter of False Opinions, the Endeavours of Satan”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 39:",
          "text": "And herein though Socrates onely ſuffered, yet were Plato and Ariſtotle guilty of the ſame truth, who demonſtratively underſtanding the ſimplicity of perfection, and the indiviſible condition of the firſt cauſator, it was not in the power of earth, or Areopagy of hell to work them from it.",
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          "ref": "c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] [A]t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton […]; and Mr. [John] Morphew […], published 1716, →OCLC, part III, page 101:",
          "text": "Conſcience only, that can ſee without Light, ſits in the Areopagy and dark Tribunal of our Hearts, ſurveying our Thoughts and condemning their obliquities[…]",
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        "(obsolete) secret tribunal, conclave"
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