referendaries

As referendaries (rapporteurs) and experts, intimately acquainted with all the hidden aspects of the subject under discussion, many of the deputies are adepts in the art of employing digressions, periphrases, and terminological subtleties, by means of which they surround the simplest matter with a maze of obscurity to which they alone have the clue.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

As the office of referendary was a very honourable one, it came to be conferred frequently as a merely honorary title, so that the number of the referendaries was unduly increased; and Sixtus V was constrained, in 1586, to limit the referendaries of the Signatura of Justice to 100, and those of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Penitentiary, and certain other high officials of the congregations of the Curia; the members of the College of Prothonotaries Apostolic de numero participantium, the auditors of the Rota, the clerics of the Apostolic Chamber, the referendaries of the Siqnatura justitiœ.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

As time went on, recourse to the Holy See becoming more and more frequent, whether to obtain graces or to submit cases to the decision of the pope, the number of the referendaries increased considerably.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Tironian notes also accompany the signatures on twenty-seven diplomas; they represent the names of persons -- referendaries or notaries -- who assisted in the preparation and expediting of the document.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

Alexander VI deemed it expedient to define their office better, which he did by creating a double Signatura -- the Signatura of Grace, and the Signatura of Justice -- to which the referendaries were severally assigned.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The others remained as "supernumerary referendaries" (extra numerum).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Alexander VII combined the referendaries of both Signaturas into a college, with a dean.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Vitale, in his "Comm. de iure signaturae justitiae", says that there is record of the referendaries as such in 1243.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

The greatest of my misfortunes was my treatment in the military court, when Zetto and Krugel were my referendaries.

The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck, Volume 2 Friedrich Trenck 1760