Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval universities, a student in the faculty of law; specifically, a student of the decretals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals.
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- noun One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the
decretals .
Etymologies
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Latin decretista, from decretum: compare French décrétiste. See decree (noun).
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a fresh impulse was given to legal researches, the terms legist and decretist -- the latter applied, in the narrower sense, to the interpreter of ecclesiastical law and commentator on the canonical texts -- have been carefully distinguished.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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