English Explanatory Dictionary

decretalist

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a 13th-century school of interpretation of canon law that emphasized the decretals (letters issued by the Popes on matters of church discipline) in preference to the Decretum Gratiani (1141), which their rivals, the decretists, favoured.

Word forms

decretalist decretalists

Etymology

From decretal + -ist.

Related words

decretalism
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