Decretum

British  

/ dɪˈkriːtəm /

noun

1. RC Church the name given to various collections of canon law, esp that made by the monk Gratian in the 12th century, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici

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Example Sentences

This he issued in textbook form, about 1142, under the title of Decretum Gratiani.

From The History of Education; educational practice and progress considered as a phase of the development and spread of western civilization by Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson

The following is the answer: Decretum: Plurium Dioeceseum.

From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, November 1864 by

All that was required was a copy of the text-book,—Gratian's Decretum, the Sentences, a treatise of Aristotle, or a medical book.

From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by Robinson, James Harvey

And with regard to the more frequent holding of Councils, he is said to have reminded the Fathers of the Decretum Perpetuum of Constance, that a Council should be assembled every ten years.

From Letters From Rome on the Council by D?llinger, Johann Joseph Ignaz von

Gratian, a celebrated canonist of the 12th century, born at Chiusi, Tuscany; was a Benedictine monk at Bologna, and compiled the "Decretum Gratiani" between 1139 and 1142.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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