Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. The branch of paleography that deals with the study of old official documents and determines their age and authenticity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The science of diplomas, or the art of deciphering ancient writings, and determining their age, authenticity, etc.; paleography.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The science of diplomas, or of ancient writings, literary and public documents, letters, decrees, charters, codicils, etc., which has for its object to decipher such instruments, or to ascertain their authenticity, their date, signatures, etc.
Etymologies
Examples
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The word diplomatics, following a Continental usage which long ago found recognition in Mabillon's "De Re Diplomaticâ", has of late come to denote also in English the science of ancient official documents, more especially of those emanating from the chanceries of popes, kings, emperors, and other authorities possessing a recognized jurisdiction.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
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Will this type of diplomatics even be possible anymore?
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They want to pursue diplomatics, and be part of the negotiations, and at the same time, resource the resistance, resource the Shia militias that provide resistance to the coalition.
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They want to pursue diplomatics and be part of the negotiations, and at the same time, resource the resistance, resource the Shia militias that provide resistance to the -- to the coalition.
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But, first, we want to turn our attention to the diplomatics -- the diplomatic efforts going under way.
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So I think diplomatics and businesspeople worldwide from the U.S. who are traveling have got to raise their level of individual protective measures.
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It can almost be regarded as the beginning of study of diplomatics.
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As Mabillon had created the science of diplomatics, so Montfaucon was the father of Greek palaeography, the principles of which he established by the rigour of his method in grouping his personal observations.
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For the extensive literature on papal letters see works on papal diplomatics; GRISAR in Kirchenlex., s.v. Bullen und Breven (to 1884);
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This is the volume, "De re diplomatica" (1681), a treatise so masterly that it remains to-day the foundation of the science of diplomatics.
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