decretal
/di'kri:tәl/
📖 中文释义
- n. 教皇的教令, 教令集
- a. 法令的
🧩 词形变化
复数 decretals
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- a. Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a
- decretal epistle.
- 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.
- a. The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions
- made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.