Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pandect \Pan"dect\, n. [L. pandecta, pandectes, Gr. ?
   all-receiving, all-containing; ?, ?, all + ? to receive: cf.
   F. pandectes, pl.]
   1. A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.

            [Thou] a pandect mak'st, and universal book.
                                                  --Donne.

   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 leading compilation of
      the Roman civil law. --Kent.