Clementines

British  

/ ˈklɛmənˌtiːnz, -ˌtaɪnz /

plural noun

1. RC Church an official compilation of decretals named after Clement V and issued in 1317 which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici

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Example Sentences

McDonald’s has tried several healthier sides as non-French fry options in its kids’ Happy Meals: Low-fat Go-Gurt was added recently, and Clementines, bananas, and other fruits are being tested starting this fall.

From Time • Aug. 14, 2014

But he knows also that he is by far the best fund raiser, and indeed almost the only capable man, in the Clementines, a small and not very notable Midwestern order.

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet this persecution, if sharp, was transitory, for in 1319 we find him again issuing letters to his clergy, saying that the Clementines had been enforced elsewhere, but not in the diocese of Strassburg.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

The latest scholarship is of the opinion that "the Clementines are unmistakably a production of the sect of the Ebionites."

From Simon Magus by Mead, George Robert Stow

If we turn to the Clementines, we find, in the same way, passages not to be found in the Canonical Gospels.

From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Besant, Annie Wood