Concordat

Word CONCORDAT
Character 9
Hyphenation con cor dat
Pronunciations /kənˈkɔːdæt/

Definitions and meanings of "Concordat"

What do we mean by concordat?

A formal agreement; a compact. noun

An agreement between the pope and a sovereign government concerning the legal status of the Roman Catholic Church within that government's territory. noun

An agreement; a compact; a convention; especially, an agreement between church and state. noun

Specifically— In canon law, a compact, covenant, or agreement concerning some beneficiary matter, as a resignation, permutation, promotion, or the like. noun

In civil law, a composition deed. noun

A convention or treaty between the see of Rome and any secular government, with a view to arrange ecclesiastical relations. The most celebrated modern concordat is that concluded in 1801 between Napoleon Bonaparte as first consul and Pius VII., defining. the restored privileges of the Roman Catholic Church in France, and regulating in detail the relations between the ecclesiastical and civil powers. noun

A compact, covenant, or agreement concerning anything. noun

An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned. noun

A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government. noun

A signed written agreement between two or more parties (nations) to perform some action noun

A formal agreement between two parties, especially between a church and a state; specifically, an agreement between the Pope and a government.

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The word "concordat" in example sentences

His concordat was the work of a real psychologist, who knew that moral forces do not use violence, and the great danger of persecuting such. ❋ Unknown (1913)

To this day, the learned do not agree as to the important question whether or not the concordat was a personal agreement with Henry or with the empire as such. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Prescinding for the present from the exact nature of a concordat, and without giving an exact definition, we may say that a concordat is a law, ecclesiastical and civil, made for a certain country in regard to matters which in some way concern both Church and State, a law, moreover, possessing the force of a treaty entered into by both the ecclesiastical and civil power and to a certain extent binding upon both. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

For I am of that school of French traditionalists which has made a kind of concordat with the Republique, a la Leo XIII. ❋ De Brantigny........................ (2008)

I have seen photos of Hitler and top Roman Catholic officials at a signing of a "concordat" and etc. ❋ Unknown (2009)

MUSEUMS across the east of Scotland have signed a new "concordat" designed to boost services for local residents.

Hence it follows that it is utterly impossible to call a concordat an international treaty in the real and true sense of the word (cf. a pamphlet anonymously edited in Rome, 1872, under the title: "Della Natura e carattere essenziale dei Concordati", whose author was Cardinal Cagiano de ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

And the salient point for our wider discussion is that there is no useful way of talking about 'Britishness' without telling a specific story – a story which is about how both invasion and foreign adventure created a flexible and hybrid language, how a particular kind of concordat between royal, feudal and ecclesiastical power outlasted a brief experiment with royal absolutism in the early modern period, how the reaction against absolutism moulded a set of legal standards and protocols (habeas corpus, jury trial), how lessons were learned and not learned in the treatment of subject societies through England's relations with its Celtic neighbours ... and so on. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I always thought that was rather a nice thing, the concordat between the No 11 flat and the No 10 flat. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The third was the infamous 1933 Pacelli/von Papen deal in which Hitler got to be Chancellor and the Vatican got the concordat with Germany that they had wanted since Bismarck. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Only a minority of drivers would have been required to work yesterday, and yet rather than bribing them to get to it with generous over-time payments management insisted that this would over-reach the small print of some 1992 concordat and thereby set a precedent with unknown but spine-chilling consequences. ❋ Unknown (2011)

A concordat between the three promises way too much -- security, recognition, energy -- to be sabotaged by needless bellicosity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A concordat with Iran would earn it not just Shiite goodwill, it will also put pressure on key Sunni hold-outs such as Saudi Arabia to follow suit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

His concordat with Hitler forced the Catholic Centre Party into dissolution, not only removing the last obstacle to Hitler's goal of absolute power in Germany but also destroying any further resistance by Germany's Catholic bishops to the Nazis. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later, as Vatican secretary of state, he negotiated a concordat with the Nazis that prohibited Catholics from actively participating in politics, thus emasculating a powerful rival faction that Hitler feared. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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