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n. Roman Catholic Church A decree, especially a papal letter giving a decision on a point or question of canon law.

adj. Pertaining to a decree.

n. A papal decree.

n. Any decree or pronounced instruction.

adj. Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree.

n. 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.

n. The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.

Pertaining to or of the nature of a decree; containing a decree or decrees.

Done according to a decree; decreed; fatal.

n. An authoritative order or decree; specifically, a letter of the pope determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law.

n. A book of decrees or edicts; a body of laws; specifically [capitalized], in the plural, the second part of the canon law: so called because it contains the decrees of sundry popes determining points of ecclesiastical law.

"In the first section of the decretal is a list of the canonical books of the Bible, as in the"

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