The first muttering of the storm which was soon to break was heard in a breve issued in 1741 by Benedict XIV., wherein he denounced the Jesuit offenders as disobedient, contumacious, captious and reprobate persons, and enacted many stringent regulations for their better government.
Disobedience to or contempt of the ecclesiastical courts is to be punished by a new writ, de contumace capiendo, to follow on the certificate of the judge that the defender is contumacious and in contempt.
contumacious הגייה עם משמעויות, מילים נרדפות, הפכים, תרגומים, משפטים ועוד