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- Pope - n. - Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
- Pope - n. - The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.
- Pope - n. - A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
- Pope - n. - A fish; the ruff.
- Popedom - n. - The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity.
- Popedom - n. - The jurisdiction of the pope.
- Popeling - n. - A petty or deputy pope.
- Popeling - n. - An adherent of the pope.
- Popelote - n. - A word variously explained as "a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet.
- Popery - n. - The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.
- Popet - n. - A puppet.
- Praemunire - n. - The offense of introducing foreign authority into England, the penalties for which were originally intended to depress the civil power of the pope in the kingdom.
- Papess - n. - A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan.
- Fratricelli - n. pl. - A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli.
- Mozzetta - n. - A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.
- Cathedral - a. - Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative.
- Allocution - n. - An address; a hortatory or authoritative address as of a pope to his clergy.
- Fanon - n. - A term applied to various articles, as: (a) A peculiar striped scarf worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple.
- Provision - n. - A nomination by the pope to a benefice before it became vacant, depriving the patron of his right of presentation.
- See - n. - Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an archiepiscopal see. (c) The seat, place, or office of the pope, or Roman pontiff; as, the papal see. (d) The pope or his court at Rome; as, to appeal to the see of Rome.
- Mandatary - n. - One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.
- Bibliolatry - n. - Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive regard to the letter of the Scriptures.
- Ablegate - n. - A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office.
- Uniate - n. - A member of the Greek Church, who nevertheless acknowledges the supremacy of the Pope of Rome; one of the United Greeks. Also used adjectively.
- Cringle - n. - An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc.
- Inquisition - n. - A court or tribunal for the examination and punishment of heretics, fully established by Pope Gregory IX. in 1235. Its operations were chiefly confined to Spain, Portugal, and their dependencies, and a part of Italy.
- Internuncio - n. - A representative, or charge d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio.
- Clementine - a. - Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
- Adoration - n. - A method of electing a pope by the expression of homage from two thirds of the conclave.
- Antipapal - a. - Opposed to the pope or to popery.
- Sext - n. - The sixth book of the decretals, added by Pope Boniface VIII.
- Papal - a. - Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.
- Concordat - n. - An agreement made between the pope and a sovereign or government for the regulation of ecclesiastical matters with which both are concerned; as, the concordat between Pope Pius VII and Bonaparte in 1801.
- Bulla - n. - A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.
- Suburbicary - a. - Being in the suburbs; -- applied to the six dioceses in the suburbs of Rome subject to the pope as bishop of Rome.
- Arrogate - v. t. - To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings.