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decretist

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de⋅cre⋅tist

  [di-kree-tist]
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–noun (in medieval universities)
1. a student in the faculty of law.
2. a student of the Decretals; expert in the canon law.
Origin:
1350–1400; < ML dēcrētista, equiv. to L dēcrēt(um) decree + -ista -ist
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