diplomatics
diplomatics noun: the science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
Noun
diplomatics (countable and uncountable, plural diplomatics)
- The science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
- Paleography might teach men to read documents, diplomatics to date them and to test their authenticity; but the full significance of an ancient deed might easily escape the most exact paleographer and the most accomplished diplomatist, for the want of that finished sense for legal technicality...1910, H. A. L. Fisher, Frederick William Maitland, Downing Professor of the Laws of England, Cambridge: University Press
- Synonyms:
- diplomatic, forensic paleography
diplomatics meaning in Arabic
diplomatics in Arabic
- science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents
- علم الوثائق
Synonyms of diplomatics
- diplomatic
- forensic paleography
Forms of diplomatics
| plural | diplomatics |
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Origin of diplomatics
Probably from Italian or Ecclesiastical Latin diplomatica.
Words that rhyme with diplomatics
Questions about diplomatics
- What does diplomatics mean?
- Diplomatics means the science of authenticating, dating, and interpreting old official documents.
- What is diplomatics in Arabic?
- Diplomatics in Arabic is علم الوثائق. See Diplomatics meaning in Arabic.
- What part of speech is diplomatics?
- Diplomatics is a noun.
- What is the plural of diplomatics?
- The plural of diplomatics is diplomatics.
Words near diplomatics in the dictionary
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