decretalist
(dɪˈkriːtəlɪst)
[mod.f. decretal (B. 1) + -ist: cf. F. décrétaliste (14th c.), and decretist.]
One versed in the Decretals. † b. One who holds the Calvinistic doctrine as the decrees of God (cf. decretal a. 2).
| 1710 D. Whitby Disc. Five Points vi. i. (1817) 400 If these Decretalists may take sanctuary in the fore-knowledge God hath of things future, the Hobbists and the Fatalists may do the same. 1872 R. Jenkins in Archæol. Cant. VIII. 66 note, Apostacy according to the decretalists is a threefold crime. |