Pandect

Quick meaning: Pandect is a noun meaning (by extension, rare) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.

Meaning

(by extension, rare) Also in the plural form pandects: a comprehensive collection of laws; specifically, the whole body of law of a country; a legal code.

More Meanings

1. (by extension, also figuratively) A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic; specifically (Christianity) a manuscript of the entire Bible.
2. (Ancient Rome, law, historical) Usually in the plural form Pandects: a compendium or digest of writings on Roman law divided in 50 books, compiled in the 6th century C.E. by order of the Eastern Roman emperor Justinian I (c. 482–565).

Example Sentences

Give me the Pandects of the Law Divine, / Such was the Law made Moſes face to ſhine.

The table of contents which we inſert here will give a juſt idea of the method with which this ſmall pandect of morality is compoſed.

But the juriſprudence of the Pandects is circumſcribed within a period of an hundred years, from the perpetual edict to the death of Severus Alexander: [...]

After upwards of Thirty Years Study, and a painful Induſtry, in compiling A New Pandect or Complete Body of the Roman Civil Law; the Firſt Volume of this Undertaking craves Leave to appear in the World under the Patronage and Protection of your Lordſhip, [...]

Word Forms

• pandects

Synonyms for pandect

Depending on context, synonyms include digest.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pandectist, polypidom, papality, papyros, pandamic, parapherna.

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