noun
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a treatise covering all aspects of a particular subject
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(often plural) the complete body of laws of a country; legal code
Etymology
Origin of pandect
1525–35; < Late Latin Pandectēs < Greek pandéktēs all-receiver ( pan- pan- + déktēs receiver, container, encyclopedia)
Example Sentences
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THE POTTERS—Those opposed to hus bands will find this their pandect.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the beginning of 1794 he published a translation of the Ordinances of Menu, on which he had been long employed, and which may be regarded as initiatory to his more copious pandect.
From Lives of the English Poets From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of Johnson's Lives by Cary, Henry Francis
Patrolling the porches of literature, why did they not bequeath us some pandect of their experience, some rich garniture of commentary on the adventures that befell?
From Shandygaff by Morley, Christopher
It is the design of this pandect, to make every one who reads it, an intelligent judge of the perversions, as well as of the true doctrines, of English grammar.
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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