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Definition of Canonists
1. canonist [n] - See also: canonist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonists
Literary usage of Canonists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"9. they (viz. the schoolmen and canonists) studied to make bishops and priests
seem very near one another, so that the difference was but small. ..."
2. A General Survey of Events, Sources, Persons and Movements in Continental by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"Treatise; The Canonists. —The Canon law was taught in the Schools or Universities
as a branch of theology, by masters or doctors of the Decretum. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"To these ceremonies the canonists and theologians of the middle ages attached
great importance, and the canonists and theologians of later times have for ..."
4. A History of the Law of Nations by Thomas Alfred Walker (1899)
"Meanwhile the conceptions of Jus Naturale, Jus Gentium, and Jus Civile had passed
to the schools of the canonists and theologians. ..."
5. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1900)
"... only two secular canonists took part in this proceeding. The sentence was
pronounced in Wy- ... canonists ..."
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