5 adjectives to describe canonists

GRATIAN, a celebrated canonist of the 12th century, born at Chiusi, Tuscany; was a Benedictine monk at Bologna, and compiled the "Decretum Gratiani" between 1139 and 1142.

"The real effect of the statute was thisthat lay lawyers were substituted for the clerical canonists of pre-Reformation times."

As a profound canonist, he was placed on the commission appointed to decide on the legality of Henry VII's marriage with Katharine of Aragon.

In this way the muftîs have absorbed a part of the duties of the qâdhîs, and so their office is dragged along in the degradation that the unofficial canonists denounce unweariedly in their writings and in their teaching.

To which he cuttingly replied "And ye, are ye canonists of the better, the ancient time?"

5 adjectives to describe  canonists