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pandect (PAN-dekt) noun
1. A comprehensive digest or complete treatise.
2. pandects. A complete body of laws; a legal code.
3. Pandects. A digest of Roman civil law, compiled for the emperor
Justinian in the sixth century A.D. and part of the Corpus Juris
Civilis. In this sense, also called Digest.
[Latin pandectes, encyclopedia, from Greek pandektes, all-receiving : pan-,
+ dektes, receiver (from dekhesthai, to receive, accept).]
"These phenomena were memorialized in the novels of Zola, themselves
accumulations between covers of a vast aggregation of sedulously
recorded trivia. Flaubert had his contemporaries' number, however.
Looking askance at this pretence to pandects, the empirical mastering
of all knowledge on a given topic and the boiling it down to easily
swallowed doses, he reduced it to absurdity in his savant idiots
Bouvard and Pecuchet."
Laurence Senelick, Double Vision: Second Empire Theatre in Stereographs,
Theatre Research International, Spring 1999.
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