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Isidorian, a.|ɪsɪˈdɔərɪən| [f. Isidor-us pr. name: see -ian.] Of or pertaining to Isidorus or Isidore; spec. to St. Isidore, archbishop of Seville 600–636, author of several historical and ecclesiastical works, and of Twenty Books of Origines or Etymologies, of value for the history of late Latin. On account of his reputation for learning, his name was in the Middle Ages attached to various other works, particularly to a collection of canons and decretals, a later interpolated collection of which is known as the pseudo-Isidorian or false decretals.
1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Knowl. I. 393 The Spanish or Isidorian translation [of Greek Canons] ascribed to Isidore of Seville. 1883Pall Mall G. 1 Sept. 1/2 The forgery of the Isidorian Decretals, which did so much to augment the power of the Popes. 1900United Presb. Mag. May 238/1 Mediaeval history has a parallel in the famous ‘Isidorian Decretals’. |