Definitions for concordat

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concordat con·cor·dat

Spelling: [kon-kawr-dat]

IPA: /kɒnˈkɔr dæt/

Concordat is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 312 anagrams from letters in concordat (accdnoort).

Definitions for concordat

noun

1. an agreement or compact, especially an official one.
2. an agreement between the pope and a secular government regarding the regulation of church matters.

Origin of concordat

1610-20; French; replacing concordate Medieval Latin concordātum, Latin: neuter of concordātus, past participle of concordāre to be in agreement. See concord,

Examples for concordat

A few months after the ratification of the concordat Talleyrand was secularised by the Pope.

This was a rupture of the concordat, and was so regarded by Napoleon.

Napolon restored it to the ecclesiastical authorities at the concordat.

He was imprisoned by Franois I for refusing to recognize the concordat .

I of the concordat, which is an organic law of the French State.

In fact, the concordat can hardly be said to have re-endowed the Church at all.

Thus Consalvi was designated as he who arranged the concordat.

He is one of the chief architects and builders of the concordat.

Since the concordat he nominates the dignitaries of the Church.

The Revolutionists did not trouble them, and they had no part in the concordat of 1801.