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Definition of Indult
1. n. A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
Definition of Indult
1. Noun. (context: Catholicism) A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Indult
1. a privilege granted by the pope [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indult
Literary usage of Indult
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lough Derg and Its Pilgrimages: With Map and Illustrations by Daniel O'Connor (1879)
"... OF THE PILGRIMAGE EXPLANATORY OBSERVATIONS ON THE "EXERCISES"— MOST REV. DR.
DONNELLY PETITIONS THE HOLT SEE FOR INDULGENCES—COPY OF THE PAPAL indult. ..."
2. Convent Life, Or, The Duties of Sisters Dedicated in Religion to the Service by Arthur Devine (1897)
"This indult applies to the collation as well as to the one meal on fasting days.
5. This obligation admits of light ..."
3. The Law of the Church: A Cyclopedia of Canon Law for English-speaking Countries by Ethelred Luke Taunton (1906)
"(5) An indult is necessary for erecting an altar to a beato ; and if granted this
does not ... The feast cannot be celebrated without a special indult. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Edward Aloysius Pace, Charles George Herbermann (1922)
"She was succeeded as enjoys a general indult for dispensing from a given was born
25 February, 1844, and entered the order marriage contracted or to be ..."
5. The New Church Law on Matrimony by Joseph Julius Charles Petrovits, Catholic Church (1919)
"Unless the rescript ordains otherwise all persons having a general indult to
dispense from a certain impediment may dispense from the same in prospective ..."
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