Păn'dect, n.

n. [Lat. pandecta, pandectes, from Gr. πανδέκτης, all-receiving, all-containing, from πᾶν, all, and δέχεσθαι, to take, receive; Fr. pandecte.]

1. A treatise which contains the whole of any science.
2. (pl.) The digest or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made, in the sixth century, by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the first part of the body of the civil law. Kent.