Crossword-Solution: DECRETIST
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Decretist | n. | One who studies, or professes the knowledge of, the decretals. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DECRETIST | anagram | TRISECTED |
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| Canon-law expert | 1 answer |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
AND STILL ___
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Sentences with DECRETIST (1)
Positively, his power was conceived as that of doing what "good conscience" required, more especially in cases of "fraud, accident or breach of confidence." His procedure was the summary, the heresy-suppressing (not the ordinary and solemn) procedure of an ecclesiastical court; but there are few signs that he borrowed any substantive rules from legist or decretist, and many proofs that within the new field of trust he pursued the ideas of the common law.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1982).