Brewer's: Burchardise

To speak ex cathedra; to speak with authority. Burchard (who died 1026) compiled a volume of canons of such undisputed authority, that any sentence it gave was beyond appeal.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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