Definition of Pandect

1. n. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

Definition of Pandect

1. Noun. A treatise or similar work that is comprehensive as to a particular topic. ¹

2. Noun. A comprehensive collection of codes or laws. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pandect

1. a complete body of laws [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pandect

1. 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science. "[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book." (Donne) 2. The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law. Origin: L. Pandecta, pandectes, Gr. All-receiving, all-containing, all + to receive: cf. F. Pandectes. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pandect

pandanuses
pandar
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pandaring
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pandarisms
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pandarized
pandarizes
pandarizing
pandarous
pandars
pandas
pandean pipe
pandebono
pandect (current term)
pandects
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pandeistic
pandeistical
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pandemia
pandemias
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pandemically
pandemicity
pandemics
pandemonia

Literary usage of Pandect

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Select Cases on the Law of Torts: With Notes, and a Summary of Principles by John Henry Wigmore (1912)
"A New pandect of the Roman Civil Law. (1734. Book IV, Tit. XXXIV, p. 594.) Properly speaking, an injury is not done to a ..."

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