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pope
[pohp] 
–noun
| 1. | (often initial capital letter ) the bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| 2. | (in the early Christian church) a bishop. |
| 3. | a person considered as having or assuming authority or a position similar to that of the Roman Catholic pope. |
| 4. | the title of the Coptic patriarch of Alexandria. |
| 5. | Eastern Church.
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Origin:
bef. 900; ME; OE pāpa < LL: bishop, pope < LGk pápas bishop, priest, var. of páppas father; see papa
bef. 900; ME; OE pāpa < LL: bishop, pope < LGk pápas bishop, priest, var. of páppas father; see papa
Related forms:
popeless, adjective
popelike, adjective
Pope
[pohp] –noun
| 1. | Alexander, 1688–1744, English poet. |
| 2. | John, 1822–92, Union general in the U.S. Civil War. |
| 3. | John Russell, 1874–1937, U.S. architect. |
Po⋅pé
[poh-pey] –noun
| died 1690?, Pueblo medicine man: led rebellion against the Spanish 1680. |
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| pope (pōp) n.
[Middle English, from Old English pāpa, from Late Latin, from Latin, father (title of bishops), from Greek pappās; see papa in Indo-European roots.] |
| Pope, Alexander 1688-1744. English writer best remembered for his satirical mock-epic poems The Rape of the Lock (1712) and The Dunciad (1728). |
| Pope, John 1822-1892. American Union general in the Civil War who was defeated by Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Second Battle of Bull Run (1862). |
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Pope
Pope\, n. [AS. p[=a]pa, L. papa father, bishop. Cf. Papa, Papal.]1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.] --Foxe. 2. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal. 3. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church. 4. (Zo["o]l.) A fish; the ruff. Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with compartments. Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep. --R. D. Blackmore. Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium.
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pope
The head of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope is believed by his church to be the successor to the Apostle Peter. He is bishop of Rome and lives in a tiny nation within Rome called the Vatican. Catholics believe that when the pope speaks officially on matters of faith and morals, he speaks infallibly (see papal infallibility). (See also John XXIII and John Paul II.)
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Pope
O.E. papa, from M.L. papa "bishop, pope" (in classical L., "tutor"), from Gk. papas "patriarch, bishop," originally "father." Applied to bishops of Asia Minor and taken as a title by the Bishop of Alexandria c.250. In Western Church, applied especially to the Bishop of Rome since the time of Leo the Great (440-461) and claimed exclusively by them from 1073. Popemobile, his car, is from 1979. Papal, papacy, later acquisitions in Eng., preserve the original vowel. Popery (1534) was a hostile coinage of the Reformation.
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