canonist's Usage Examples:

But the best canonists, from the Roman professor De Angelis (Prael.

On some of these points the codes differ, and the whole is to be regarded as the ideal qualification, built up theoretically by the canonists.

, in the 11th century, the tribunals have fallen into the hands of a regular class of canonists who are in fact professional church-lawyers in orders.

Cranmer suggested that if the canonists and the universities should decide that marriage with a deceased brother's widow was illegal, and if it were proved that Catherine had been married to Prince Arthur, her marriage to Henry could be declared null and void by the ordinary ecclesiastical courts.

Innocent was an eminent jurist and canonist, and never ceased to use his immense power in the service of the law.

The phrase exercised the minds of learned canonists all through the middle ages, but still held its ground.

As the great canonist Gratian remarked on a similar decretal of Pope Pelagius, "Here is a case where lechery has more rights at law than has chastity" (Decret.

Not to speak of the canonists, Thomas Aquinas gives natural law an important place; while Melancthon, drawing from Aquinas, gives it an entrance into Protestant thought.

The abstract law was to be found rather in the Summae of the canonists than in the decretals.

It should be said, however, that most of these practices met with very considerable opposition both from councils and from theologians and canonists, amongst others from the English canonist William Lyndwood (Provinciale, lib.

At first he followed a legal career at Pavia and Bologna, and when in 1499 he took his doctorate he was esteemed the most learned canonist in Europe.

The canonists define the degrees of suspicion as "light" calling for vigilance, "vehement" demanding denunciation, and "violent" requiring punishment.

Synonyms:

specialist, specializer, specialiser,

Antonyms:

generalist, scholar, bookman, student,