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(historical) A member of a 13th-century school of interpretation of canon law that emphasized the decretals (letters issued by the Popes on matters of church discipline) in preference to the Decretum Gratiani (1141), which their rivals, the decretists, favoured.

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Related dictionary entries include decalogist, decurion, deductor, commentator, decadarch, papalist.

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