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Charles Buck Dictionary
• Decretal
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• False Decretals
• Decretals, False
• Decretal
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• Decretive
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• Decretals
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• Canon Law, Canons of Discipline, Canons and Decretals of Rome.
• Decret, Claude
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Decretals, the
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(1):

(a.) Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle.

(2):

(a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.

(3):

(a.) The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.