Brō'card, n.

n. [Perhaps from Brocardica, Brocardicorum opus, a collection of ecclesiastical canons by Burkhard, Bishop of Worms, who was called by the Italians and French Brocard. Heuse.] An elementary principle or maxim; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics; a canon.

The scholastic brocard, “Nihil est in intellectu quod non prius fuit in sensu,” is the fundamental article in the creed of that school of philosophers who are called sensualists. Ferrier.

The legal brocard, “Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus,” is a rule not more applicable to other witnesses than to consciousness. Sir W. Hamilton.