decretalistn.
/dɪˈkriːtəlɪst/ (a) One versed in the Decretals. †(b) One who holds the Calvinistic doctrine as the decrees of God (cf. decretal adj. 2).
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1710 D. Whitby Disc. Five Points (1817) vi. i. 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 Archaeologia Cantiana 8 66 (note) Apostacy according to the decretalists is a threefold crime.
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