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Definition of: pandect
(pan′dekt) noun
1. An encyclopedic treatise; a complete digest of some department of knowledge.
2. Any complete system of law. [<F pandecte <L pandecta <Gk. pandektēs an all–receiver <pan, neut. of pas all + dechesthai take]
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