Meanings
- derogatoryhistoricalecclesiasticalThe Second Council of Ephesus.
The business of the Council of Chalcedon was to reverse the proceedings of the Latrocinium ...
1936, Cuthbert Turner, “The Organization of the Church”, in The Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms, page 1752 more examples
But the whole circumstances of the Latrocinium, where everything was done to degrade Constantinople by Dioscurus, render it impossible to attach any weight to a statement of this kind ...
1912, Edward Denny, Papalism: A treatise on the claims of the papacy as set forth in the encyclical Satis Cognitum, page 638This was all the more significant because the victors at the Latrocinium were surprisingly slow in following up their advantage in Constantinople.
1979, Timothy E. Gregory, Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D., page 151
Origin
- Latinlatrocinium“act of brigandage; an illegitimate church council”
- EnglishLatrocinium
From Latin latrocinium (“act of brigandage; an illegitimate church council”). Doublet of larceny.
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