Meanings of kirk session in English

My first meeting with the kirk session of St. Cuthbert's was an epoch-marking incident.

The sign on the church door announced a kirk session to investigate charges of witchcraft.

What is the kirk session to my little Katherine?

I think a man might find easier pleasuring than going to a kirk session through a snowstorm.

There is an extra kirk session to-night.

For any kirk session is far from commonplace, let alone the session of such a church as mine.

The whole town is terrified of them, everyone afraid to speak up in the kirk session lest they're accused next.

The second, and larger, deputation was composed of ten or more, appointed to represent the kirk session and the Board.

He would need a brave and facile pen who would venture to portray the kirk session of St. Cuthbert's Church.

The kirk session was convened in my room after the great service ceased, and the glow of joy was on every face.

Her father would be at the kirk session, and if Donald was there, he thought he knew how to whisper him away.

They'll be bringin' ower the pope next, and the kirk session, convening the next night, soon stopped that leakage in their ancestral dyke.

Also, my share in the matter I must tell in the kirk session; and Dominie de Ronde is not one slack in giving the reproof.

It has been said that the contribution by the heritor (the duke) to one kirk session for the poor was but six pounds.

The invitation "to conduct divine services in St. Cuthbert's, whose pulpit is now vacant," had come unsought from the kirk session of that distant temple.

Kirk sessions are the bloom of Scottish character in particular and the crown and glory of mankind in general.