Crossword clues for canonist
canonist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Canonist \Can"on*ist\, n. [Cf. F. canoniste.]
A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and
practice of ecclesiastical law.
--South.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) An expert in canon law
WordNet
adj. pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism"
n. a specialist in canon law
Usage examples of "canonist".
Many theologians and canonists in the Middle Ages so held, and a few perhaps hold so still.
Hence canonists have maintained that the subjects of other states may even engage in war with the Pope as prince, without breach of their fidelity to him as pontiff or supreme visible head of the church.
The church, moreover, has always recognized the distinction of the two powers, and although the Pope owes to the fact that he is chief of the spiritual society, his temporal principality, no theologian or canonist of the slightest respectability would argue that he derives his rights as temporal sovereign from his rights as pontiff.
FIRST CASE Dominicus Soto, a very famous canonist and theologian, confessor to Charles V, present at the first meetings of the Council of Trent under Paul III, propounds a question about a man who had lost a paper on which he had written down his sins.