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Definition of Decretals
1. decretal [n] - See also: decretal
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decretals
Literary usage of Decretals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"As it was a matter of public knowledge, and more or less contemporary with the
appearance of the decretals, nearly all the critics are agreed that Isidore ..."
2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"These particular decretals hail already been compiled by two Englishmen at Bologna,
Gilbert and Alan, but the university had not approved their work, ..."
3. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1906)
"... decretals. As the Roman Catholic Church grew more ambitious and became more
completely involved in secular affairs, the need was felt of stronger ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"Up to the 9th c., the only authentic collection of decretals, ... The subject-matter
of these decretals is most diversified, comprising the authority and ..."
5. The Papacy and the Civil Power by Richard Wigginton Thompson (1876)
"The Gratian decretals.—They authorize Physical Compulsion and Torture.—Arnold of
Brescia burned ... He caused a New Body of False decretals to be composed. ..."
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