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Definitions
A comprehensive digest, especially of Roman law.
Word origin
Sense 3 (“comprehensive treatise”) is from Latin pandectēs (“book that contains everything, encyclopedia”), from Ancient Greek πανδέκτης (pandéktēs, “encyclopedia”, literally “all-receiver”), from παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all’) (from πᾶς (pâs, “all”)) + δέκτης (déktēs, “receiver, recipient”) (from δέχομαι (dékhomai, “to receive”) (from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to take; to perceive”)) + -της (-tēs, suffix forming agent nouns)).
Used in a sentence
“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: [...]”
“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.”
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