An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
DECRETAL
Etymology
Adjective
decretal (comparative more decretal, superlative most decretal)
Pertaining to a decree.
Noun
decretal (plural decretals)
A papal decree, particularly one derived from an ecclesiastical letter.
(now rare) Any decree or pronounced instruction.
Anagrams
• clareted, treacled
Source: Wiktionary
De*cre"tal, a. Etym: [L. decretalis, fr. decretum. See Decree.]
Definition: Appertaining to a decree; containing a decree; as, a decretal epistle. Ayliffe.
De*cre"tal, n. Etym: [LL. decretale, neut. of L. decretalis. See Decretal, a.]
1. (R. C. Ch.)
Definition: An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
2. (Canon Law)
Definition: The collection of ecclesiastical decrees and decisions made, by order of Gregory IX., in 1234, by St. Raymond of Pennafort.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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