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Webster 1913 Edition
Decretal
De-cre′tal
,Adj.
Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree;
as, a
. decretal
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1.
(R. C. Ch.)
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.
2.
(Canon Law)
The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Webster 1828 Edition
Decretal
DECRETAL
, n.1.
A letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.2.
A book of decrees, or edicts; a body of laws.3.
A collection of the popes decrees.Definition 2024
decretal
decretal
English
Adjective
decretal (comparative more decretal, superlative most decretal)
- Pertaining to a decree.
- Chase v. Turner, 560 So. 2d 1317, 1320 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990):
- [T]his finding, when read in conjunction with the other findings, as well as decretal portions of the final judgment, is more logically interpreted as a reference to the successful operation of the business...
- Chase v. Turner, 560 So. 2d 1317, 1320 (Fla. 1st DCA 1990):
Noun
decretal (plural decretals)
- A papal decree.
- (now rare) Any decree or pronounced instruction.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix:
- picturals / Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals, / Of commen wealthes, of states, of pollicy, / Of lawes, of iudgements, and of decretals [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.ix: