Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A collection of papal bulls.
  • noun A house in which salt is prepared by boiling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A collection of papal bulls.
  • noun A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun ecclesiastical A collection of papal bulls.
  • noun A place for boiling or preparing salt; a boilery.

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Examples

  • For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, -- a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves.

    Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Sarah J. Richardson

  • For although a continuation of the bullary has just been published at Rome, containing several decrees of this congregation, there is not one that announces a fulfilment of this illusory promise, ” a promise imagined by a correspondent to French newspapers, but never given by the inquisitors themselves.

    Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal Richardson, Sarah J 1858

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