Crossword clues for concordat
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Concordat \Con*cor"dat\, n. [F. concordat, L. concordato, prop. p. p. of concordare. See Concord.]
A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything.
An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.
--Hook.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"agreement between church and state on a mutual matter," 1610s, from French concordat (16c.), from Medieval Latin concordatum, noun use of Latin concordatum, neuter past participle of concordare "to agree," from concors (genitive concordis) "of one mind" (see concord).
Wiktionary
n. A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A concordat is convention between the Holy See and a sovereign state that defines the relationship between the Catholic Church and the state in matters that concern both, i.e. the recognition and privileges of the Catholic Church in a particular country and with secular matters that impact on church interests.
According to P.W. Brown the use of the term "concordat" does not appear "until the pontificate of Pope Martin V (1413-1431) in a work by Nicholas de Cusa, entitled De Concordantia Catholica". The first concordat dates from 1098, and from then to the beginning of the First World War the Holy See signed 74 concordats. Due to the substantial remapping of Europe that took place after the war, new concordats with legal successor states were necessary. The post-World War I era saw the greatest proliferation of concordats in history.
Although for a time after the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965, the term 'concordat' was dropped, it reappeared with the Polish Concordat of 1993 and the Portuguese Concordat of 2004. A different model of relations between the Vatican and various states is still evolving in the wake of the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Religious Liberty, Dignitatis humanae.
A concordat is an agreement between the Holy See and a national government. Concordat may also refer to:
- Memorandum of understanding, especially between the central UK government and the devolved Scottish and Welsh administrations
- Concordat of 2002 between the national government of Georgia and the Georgian Orthodox Church
- The Concordat, in Funny Farm (webcomic), the name of a secret society
Usage examples of "concordat".
After Te Deum had been chanted at Malmaison for the Concordat and the peace, I took advantage of that moment of general joy to propose to Bonaparte the return of the whole body of emigrants.
Pornography and money enjoy a dose concordat, and you have to pay your union dues.
Republic the papers relating to that Concordat which secured so great a measure of freedom for our press.
I am proud that it was my privilege to transcribe for the records of the Republic the papers relating to that Concordat which secured so great a measure of freedom for our press.
All the masses of the great work-civil code, university, Concordat, prefectoral and centralized administration-all the details of its arrangement and distribution of places, tend to one general effect, which is the omnipotence of the State, the omnipresence of the government, the abolition of local and private initiative, the suppression of voluntary free association, the gradual dispersion of small spontaneous groupings, the preventive ban of prolonged hereditary works, the extinction of sentiments by which the individual lives beyond himself in the past or in the future.
You and I are presumably protected from such incursions—at least any your Concordat Kinsmen could anticipate.
In those days the Kinsmen had actively recruited telepaths throughout the Concordat, and he had been among their most promising students.