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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pandect

Pan′dect (păn′dĕkt), n. [L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. πανδέκτης all-receiving, all-containing; πᾶς, πᾶν, all + δέχεσθαι to receive: cf. F. pandectes, pl.] 1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

[Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book. Donne.

2. pl. 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. Kent.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.