Latrocinium

English

Etymology

From Latin latrocinium (“act of brigandage; an illegitimate church council”). Doublet of larceny.

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) IPA^(key): /ˌlætɹəˈsɪniəm/

Proper noun

Latrocinium

1. (historical, ecclesiastical, derogatory) The Second Council of Ephesus.
   • 1912, Edward Denny, Papalism: A treatise on the claims of the papacy as set forth in the encyclical Satis Cognitum, page 638:

     But the whole circumstances of the Latrocinium, where everything was done to degrade Constantinople by Dioscurus, render it impossible to attach any weight to a statement of this kind ...

   • 1936, Cuthbert Turner, “The Organization of the Church”, in The Cambridge Medieval History, Vol. I: The Christian Roman Empire and the Foundation of the Teutonic Kingdoms, page 175:

     The business of the Council of Chalcedon was to reverse the proceedings of the Latrocinium ...

   • 1979, Timothy E. Gregory, Vox Populi: Popular Opinion and Violence in the Religious Controversies of the Fifth Century A.D., page 151:

     This was all the more significant because the victors at the Latrocinium were surprisingly slow in following up their advantage in Constantinople.

Anagrams

• tourmalinic