a. and sb. [ad. L. clēmentīn-us, f. Clēmens, -entem, the adj. used as a personal name. In Fr. clémentin, -ine.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Clement: esp. applied a. to writings passing under the name of Clement of Rome; b. to the Constitutions of Pope Clement V.; c. to the edition or text of the Vulgate revised by orders of Clement VIII.
1705. Bp. Bull, Corrupt. Ch. Rome (1839), 32 (T.). In the Clementine liturgy, the bread and wine in the eucharist are said to be antitypes … of the precious body and blood of Christ.
1765–9. Blackstone, Comm., Introd. § 3. 82 (T.). Gregory’s decretals, the sixth decretal, the Clementine constitutions.
1843. Penny Cycl., XXVI. 465. Called the Clementine Vulgate, or more frequently by Roman Catholic writers, the corrected Bible of Sixtus V.
B. sb.
1. pl. a. The constitutions collected by Pope Clement V., forming the seventh book of the Decretals. b. Certain writings passing under the name of Clement of Rome, now acknowledged to be spurious.
c. 1380. Antecrist, in Todd, 3 Treat. Wyclif, 129. Redynge … of … þe cretals & þe clementynes.
1544. Bale, Sir J. Oldcastell, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), I. 277. The lawes … of our moost holy father the Pope, incorporated in his decrees, decretals, clementynes, codes.
1816. Scott, Antiq., xvii. The papal laws, decrees, decretals, clementines.
2. a. An adherent of the anti-pope ‘Clement VII.,’ the rival of Pope Urban VI. b. A follower of Clement of Alexandria.
1883. Advance (Chicago), 6 Dec. The sects of the Ebionites, Clementines, and Gnostics illustrate … this Judaizing tendency of the early Christian Church.
