Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or issued by a pope.
- adjective Of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to the Pope in his official capacity, or the papacy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope
- adjective Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.
- adjective See
Illust. 3 ofCross . - adjective the tiara.
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- adjective Having to do with the
pope or thepapacy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles
Etymologies
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Examples
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Why should we rely on anti-LT Catholics when we wouldn't dream, for example, of asking Protestants to explain papal infallibility?
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(Pius XI seated upon the papal throne in papal mantum, with Cardinal deacons in cappa on either side)
More Rare Images: Good Friday with Pius XI in the Sistine Chapel 2009
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I would later learn that my ideas about social justice, better articulated and without my errors, appear in papal encyclicals.
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Few believe in papal infallibility, but they are less likely than liberals to say that "all the world's great religions are equally true."
Tribal Relations 2006
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Few believe in papal infallibility, but they are less likely than liberals to say that "all the world's great religions are equally true."
Tribal Relations 2006
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The change in papal funerals was expressed most starkly in the first to be held after Vatican II.
USATODAY.com - Papal funeral merges spectacle, symbolism 2005
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He was at one time commissary general of the Order and again papal legate to Milan, Burgundy, and to the emperor.
03/01/2003 - 04/01/2003 John 2003
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At age eighteen, Artemisia Gentileschi finds herself humiliated in papal court for publicly accusing the man who raped her Agostino Tassi, her painting teacher.
The Passion of Artemisia: Summary and book reviews of The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland. 2002
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Protestant Christians in papal times; and probably shall be again restored to its pristine grandeur, such as it had under the Caesars, just before the burning of the harlot and of itself with her.
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The pope's vision of the continent, formally delivered on Sunday to Africa's bishops in the form of an 87-page document known as a treatise, has been called a "papal road map" for Africa.
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