de fide

American  

[de-fee-de, dee-fi-dee] / dɛˈfi dɛ, diˈfɪ di /

adjective

Latin.

1. of the faith: a phrase used in the Roman Catholic Church to qualify certain teachings as being divinely revealed, belief in them therefore being obligatory.

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de fide British  

/ diː ˈfaɪdɪ /

adjective

1. RC Church (of a doctrine) belonging to the essentials of the faith, esp by virtue of a papal ruling

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Etymology

Origin of de fide

literally: from faith

Example Sentences

They were not the persons who would have added the gratifying est de fide after a number of untenable propositions.

From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest

"The constitutio de fide has been adopted by the Ecumenical Council, nemine contradicente."

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870 by Various

Both propositions contained in this thesis are de fide.

From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Preuss, Arthur

And this their judgment is to be seen in their writings against Papists about the controversies de interpretatione Scripturae, de fide implicita, &c.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

It does protest against the claims of Italy or of any other nation to rule England, or to impose upon us, as de fide, anything exclusively Roman.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by Holmes, E. E.