canonists'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.

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

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.

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

) the uncertainty of canonists at the time when the locution was quite recent, (ii.

It is not unlike the procedure of the canonists and casuists of the middle ages with regard to the doctrine of usury, by which the doctrine was to all appearances preserved intact while in reality it was stripped of all its original meaning by innumerable distinctions " over-curious and precise.

Synonyms:

specialist, specializer, specialiser,

Antonyms:

generalist, scholar, bookman, student,