decretal
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French decretal, from Late Latin dēcrētālis, from Latin decretum.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈkɹiːtəɫ/
- Hyphenation: de‧cre‧tal
Adjective edit
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):
Translations edit
Noun edit
decretal (plural decretals)
- (Roman Catholicism) A papal decree, particularly one derived from an ecclesiastical letter.
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 65, lines 130–135:
- Or els is thys Goddis law,
Decrees or decretals,
Or holy sinodals,
Or els provincyals,
Thus within the wals
Of holy church to deale […]?
- 1878, "Decretals" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. VII, p. 22:
- DECRETALS... are the answers sent by the Pope to applications made to him as head of the church, chiefly by bishops, but also by synods, and even private individuals, for guidance in cases involving points of doctrine or discipline... From the 4th century onwards they formed the most prolific source of canon law. Decretals... ought, properly speaking, to be distinguished, on the one hand from constitutions... enacted by the Pope sua sponte without reference to any particular case, and on the other hand from rescripts... which apply only to special circumstances or individuals, and constitute no general precedent. But this nomenclature is not strictly observed.
- (now rare) Any decree or pronounced instruction.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] picturals / Of Magistrates, of courts, of tribunals, / Of commen wealthes, of states, of pollicy, / Of lawes, of iudgements, and of decretals […]
Related terms edit
Translations edit
papal decree
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Anagrams edit
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dēcrētālis.
Adjective edit
decretal m or f (masculine and feminine plural decretales)
Further reading edit
- “decretal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014