Meanings of canonist in English

Of this very case, Reiffenstuel, a canonist of repute, about the year 1700, writes:

Ashley says that 'the prohibition of usury was clearly the centre of the canonist doctrine.

His father and grandfather, the latter a celebrated jurist and canonist, had been judges in that city.

All art indeed in this sense rests on science; but the science on which the canonist doctrine rested was theology.

ANDREA, GIOVANNI (1275-1348), Italian canonist, was born at Mugello, near Florence, about 1275.

The 12th-century canonist Theodore Balsamon wrote that "the monthly affliction banished them from the divine and holy sanctuary".

My new acquaintances consist of the Papal Nuntius Viale, a very striking person, Professor Walther, the canonist, and some intelligent Bavarians.

The Dutch canonist Piet Fransen, S. J. has proposed the grouping of the whole Church into patriarchates along regional or continental lines.

As a profound canonist, he was placed on the commission appointed to decide on the legality of Henry VII's marriage with Katharine of Aragon.

In the sixteenth century, very famous among canonists was the learned Benedictine, Vilagut.

Hence, generally speaking, the civilians were partisans of the emperors, the canonists of the popes.

Many theologians and canonists in the Middle Ages so held, and a few perhaps hold so still.

These civilians and canonists had previously been lodged at "a mean house in Paternoster Row."

With its solemn doctors, its insipid canonists, its hypocritical and atrabilious devotees, Jerusalem has not conquered humanity.

The decree of Gratian was favourable to the pretensions of the popes; and on this account was encouraged by the canonists.

It was received with great favour in Austria, where the principles of Febronius were adopted by most of the leading court canonists.