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decretist

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In the history of canon law , a decretist was student and interpreter of the Decretum Gratiani . Like Gratian , the decretists sought to provide "a harmony of discordant canons" ( concordia discordantium canonum ), and they worked towards this through glosses ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Decretist \De*cre"tist\, n. [LL. decretista, fr. decretum: cf. F. d['e]cr['e]tiste. See Decree , n.] One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.

Usage examples of decretist.

He had taken his place by turns, as our readers have seen, at the conferences of the theologians in the Sorbonne, at the meetings of the philosophers at the image of Saint-Hilaire, at the disputes of the decretists at the image of Saint-Martin, at the congregations of the physicians at the holy-water font of Notre-Dame.