discretus

His authority and wisdom being immediately established by such adjectives as "discerning" (discretus) and "lettered" (literatus), John claims that he has heard such accusations before, legitimizing a process already underway. 103 It is this combination of intellect and emotion, of learned law expert and mourning mother, of two responses gendered male and female, that, Matthew hints, led to the king's belief in the accusation and to the execution of nineteen Jews.

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

The chapter of definitors for the whole order (thirteenth century), the chapter of custodies in each province, the discretus sent by the subordinate convents to the provincial chapter, etc. are institutions which have long ceased to exist.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

- ORIGIN Old French discret, from Latin discretus 'separate'. hetero -

Army Rumour Service 2010

Item volumus & concedimus, quod aliquis certus homo fidelis & discretus Londini residens assignetur iustitiarius mercatoribus memoratis, coram quo valeant specialiter placitare,

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

Note 103: Paris, 517 — 518: "Erat autem ibidem dominus Johannes de Lexintona, vir quidem circumspectus et discretus, insuper eleganter literatus, qui ait; ‘Audivimus quandoque quod Judaei in obprobrium Jesu Christi Domini nostri crucifixi non sunt veriti talia attemptare. '" back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

* aliter dominus non videretur fuisse discretus: [580] 1

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820

And if God hath made such provision by the gospel for all that enjoy the light and advantage of it, that none can miscarry without their own fault, then both his goodness and wisdom are sufficiently acquitted, without an infallible guide and judge in matters of faith; and that irreverent way of arguing in the canon law might well have been spared -- that of necessity there must be an infallible judge of controversies in religion; aliter dominus non videretur fuisse discretus, "otherwise God would not seem to have ordered matters discreetly,"

The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 05. 1630-1694 1820

Item volumus & concedimus, quod aliquis certus homo fidelis & discretus

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584