▪ I. bullary
(ˈbʊlərɪ)
Also 7 -ery.
[ad. med.L. bullārium f. bulla papal bull: see -ary, -arium. Cf. F. bullaire. Also used in L. form Bullarium.]
A collection of papal bulls.
| a 1674 Clarendon Surv. Leviath. 153 Their whole Bullarium..abounds in Canonizations. 1679 T. Barlow Popery 78 Many more such impious Bulls there are in that Roman Bullary. c 1690 South Serm. V. v. (R.) The whole bull is extant in the bullery of Laertius Cherubinus. 1726 Ayliffe Parerg. xxvi, Out of these Registers there were afterwards compil'd these several Bullariums. 1745–1836 A. Butler Lives of Saints II. 936 note, Parts of the latest bullaries of Clement XII. and Benedict XIV. 1881 Philadelphia Press XXXV. 12 Aug. 4 Which in itself was compiled from the Bullarium and decretals of the Popes. |
▪ II. bullary
var. of bullery. Obs.