Definition of "synodal"

synodal

noun
plural synodals
1. A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
  Quotations
  synodals, paid to the Bishop of Carlisle every year
  1887, Thomas Gibson, Legends and Historical Notes on Places of North Westmoreland
2. A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
  Quotations
  Or els is thys Goddis law,Decrees or decretals,Or holy sinodals,Or els provincyals,Thus within the walsOf holy church to deale […]?
  c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, page 65, lines 130–135
adjective
not comparable
1. synodic; relating to a synod
  Quotations
  the authority of some synodal canons
  1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698