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pandect|ˈpændɛkt|
[a. F. pandecte, ad. L. pandecta or -tēs, a. Gr. πανδέκτης an all-receiver; esp. in pl. L. pandectæ, Gr. πανδέκται, in sense 1.]
1. a. pl. (rarely sing.) A compendium in fifty books of Roman civil law made by order of the Emperor Justinian in the sixth century, systematizing opinions of eminent jurists, to which the Emperor gave the force of law.
1531Elyot Gov. i. xiv, Called the Pandectes or Digestes. 1614Selden Titles Hon. Pref. d iv, When Lothar took Amalfi, he there found an old Copie of the Pandects or Digests. 1758Blackstone Comm. Introd. i. 17 A copy of Justinian's pandects being newly discovered at Amalfi, soon brought the civil law into vogue all over the west of Europe. 1765Ibid. iii. 81 The present body of civil law..consists of, 1. The institutes... 2. The digests, or pandects, containing the opinions and writings of eminent lawyers, digested in a systematical method. 1878Smith Dict. Antiq. 860/2 These two works, the Pandect and the Code.
b. transf. and fig. (Also sing.) A complete body of the laws of any country or of any system of law.
1553Paynel (title) The Pandectes of the Evangylicall Lawe, comprisyng the Whole Historye of Christes Gospell. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 3 The Scripture is..a Pandect of profitable lawes, against rebellious spirits. 1692Bentley Boyle Lect. ix. 316 The Code and Pandect of the Law of Nature. 1731Hist. Litteraria II. 303 Proposals for printing by Subscription, a new Pandect of Roman Civil Law, as..now receiv'd and practis'd in most European Nations. 1900Expositor Oct. 264 Some of the Moslem codes are called ‘Pandects’ i.e. ‘all containing’.
2. (sing.)
a. A treatise covering the whole of a subject; a complete treatise or digest.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. i. 209 Therefore by Faith's pure rayes illumined, These sacred Pandects I desire to read. 1611Donne On Coryat's Crudities 50 Thus thou, by means which th' Ancients never took, A Pandect mak'st and universal book. 1701Swift Contests Nobles & Comm. Wks. 1755 II. i. 46 That..the commons would please to form a pandect of their own power and privileges. 1813M. Edgeworth Patron. (1833) II. xxi. 26 On these points it is requisite to reform the pandects of criticism.
b. A manuscript volume containing all the books of the bible.
1887F. J. A. Hort in Academy 26 Feb. 148/2 There cannot now be a shadow of doubt that the Codex Amiatinus is the ‘Pandect’ which Ceolfrid sent as a present to Gregory II. 1893E. G. Browne Lessons Early Eng. Church Hist. 68 A pandect means a copy of the whole Bible. 1912D. S. Boutflower Life of Ceolfrid 69 He [sc. Ceolfrid] caused three Pandects to be transcribed. 1969Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. XXXII. 1 One of the three pandects, as they were then called (complete bibles in one volume) has survived miraculously intact. This is the Codex Amiatinus.
¶ Catachr. for pundit n.[Similarly in Fr.: cf. quot. 1791 in Yule s.v. Pundit.] 1794J. Williams Parental Didactics in Cabinet etc. 18 Pandects and Bramins, Molhas and Cantabs.
Hence panˈdectist, one skilled in the Pandects.
1901F. W. Maitland Rede Lect. 26 Georg Beyer, a pandectist at Wittenberg, set a precedent for lectures on German law in a German university. |