Dens, Peter, a Catholic theologian, born at Boom near Antwerp; author of a work entitled “Theologia Moralis et Dogmatica,” a minute and casuistic vindication in catechetical form of the tenets of the Catholic Church, and in use as a text-book in Catholic colleges (1690‒1775).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dennis, John * Dentatus, M. Curius