Pseudo-Isidorian

Pseudo-Isidorian
/sooh'doh iz'i dawr"ee euhn, -dohr"-/, adj.
of or pertaining to the collection of documents of the 9th century A.D. that consist chiefly of the Decretals, attributed to Isidore, archbishop of Seville, A.D. 600-36, and that were rejected as spurious in the 15th century.

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