Decretals

British  

/ dɪˈkriːtəlz /

plural noun

1. RC Church a compilation of decretals, esp the authoritative compilation ( Liber Extra ) of Gregory IX (1234) which forms part of the Corpus Juris Canonici

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Example Sentences

Grosteste was a man who had learned his life-lessons, not from priest or monk, from Fathers or Decretals, but direct from God.

From Earl Hubert's Daughter The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century by Holt, Emily Sarah

Hence the Apostolic Constitutions, the Decretals, the Apostles' and the Athanasian Creeds, and all the profitable relics of saints and martyrs.

From Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by Foote, G. W. (George William)

Pope Nicholas I, in 866, opposed the use of torture as barbaric, and the pseudo-Isidorian Decretals take the same position in regard to it.

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham

The first of these, for which during 1860 and 1861 he had gathered materials in Italy, Spain, France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland and Belgium, was the first critical edition of the False Decretals.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

When Luther had the Decretals publicly burnt at Wittemberg, the insult was designed for the pope, rather than as a condemnation of the canon law itself.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac