decretal|decretals in English

noun

papal decree relating to a point of view of church law

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1. Apostates are debarred from ecclesiastical burial (Decretals of .Gregory IX, Bk

2. There are 3 eight-letter words containing A, C, D, 2E, L, R and T: Clareted DECRETAL & TREACLED

3. According to the medieval canon law, based on the decretals, and Codified in the 13th century in the Corpus juris canonici, by which the earlier powers of metropolitans had been greatly curtailed, the powers of the archbishop consisted in the right …

4. In the Middle Ages, both civil and canon law classed Apostates with heretics; so much so that title 9 of the fifth book of the Decretals of Gregory IX, which treats of apostasy, contains only a secondary provision concerning apostasy a Fide [iv, Friedberg, Corpus juris canonici (Leipzig, 1879-81), II, 790-792].