Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The College of Cardinals.
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- noun (Roman Catholic Church) the body of cardinals who advise the Pope and elect new Popes
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Examples
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I'm eagerly awaiting for the Cardinal to be deposed from the Sacred College, excommunicated and dismissed from the clerical state.
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Menestrier goes as far as naming the forger; a member of Cardinal Simoncelli's party is supposed to have forged these prophecies in order to influence the electors in favour of his Cardinal who was the doyen of the Sacred College and, by virtue of his office and other qualities, surely a favourite for the pontificate.
Prophecies of St. Malachy, Part 1 elena maria vidal 2009
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Menestrier goes as far as naming the forger; a member of Cardinal Simoncelli's party is supposed to have forged these prophecies in order to influence the electors in favour of his Cardinal who was the doyen of the Sacred College and, by virtue of his office and other qualities, surely a favourite for the pontificate.
Archive 2009-03-01 elena maria vidal 2009
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The interest of his family, and his own merits, it is not doubted, will one day, if he lives, give him a place in the Sacred College.
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Once, you know, she had thoughts of exciting against me the holy tribunal: but I was upon such a foot, as a traveller, and as an English protcstant, though avowed, not behaving indiscreetly, that I had friends enow, even in the Sacred College, to have rendered ineffectual any steps of that sort.
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But there is a greater distance between God and his most perfect creatures than between the Holy Father and the dean of the Sacred College.
HIERARCHY AND ORDER C. A. PATRIDES 1968
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Ugolini, with most of the Sacred College behind him.
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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At the head of the procession walked the pope in gold and white, and the cardinals of the Sacred College in bright red.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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Near Ugolini stood Cardinal Paulus de Verceuil, the Tartars 'chief supporter in the Sacred College, in a scarlet robe trimmed with ermine, and a broad-brimmed red hat.
The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963
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The little cardinal, required by the etiquette of the Sacred College to attend but made fearful by the rumors of fighting and killing to come, had begged Daoud to come with him and stay near him.
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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