de fide

[ de-fee-de; English dee-fi-dee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

, Latin.

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.

de fide

/ diː ˈfaɪdɪ /

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

Origin of de fide¹

literally: from faith

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

Regarding the locality and its pleasantness or painfulness nothing has been taught as de fide.

And the same principles are secondarily de fide, as it is that there is a God.

The only visions received as de fide are those recorded in the Holy Scriptures.

On the other hand the want of the treatise, "De fide orthodoxa," is doubtless a relief to literature.

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