Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Roman Catholic Church The bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- noun Eastern Orthodox Church The patriarch of Alexandria.
- noun The Coptic patriarch of Alexandria.
- noun The male head of some non-Christian religions.
- noun A person considered to have unquestioned authority.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The blacktail, a fish: same as
ruff . - noun The bullfinch.
- noun The red-backed shrike, Lanius collurio.
- noun The puffin, Fratercula arctica. Montagu.
- noun The painted finch, or nonpareil. See cut under
Passcrina . - noun The Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church and hierarchy.
- noun The patriarch of Alexandria.
- noun A priest in the Greek or Russian Church.
- noun The head of any church or ecclesiastical system.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
- noun The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See
Note underCardinal . - noun A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
- noun (Zoöl.) A fish; the ruff.
- noun a game at cards played on a round board with compartments.
- noun the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep.
- noun the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See
Uropygium . - noun to adhere more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine; -- usually used in a negative sense to mean, to be excessively pious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Christianity The bishop of Rome; the head of the
Roman Catholic church. - noun by extension The head of any religion.
- noun The Bishop or
Patriarch of Alexandria. - noun A small Eurasian freshwater
fish , Gymnocephalus cernua. - noun Any of various birds having reddish plumage on the breast, especially the
bullfinch . - noun An Eastern Orthodox
priest .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- noun English poet and satirist (1688-1744)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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He received a "Medal of Peace" from Pope John Paul I, that guy who was pope for about ten minutes, but found time to give a peace award to a man who invented a filthy weapon of mass-death.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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He received a "Medal of Peace" from Pope John Paul I, that guy who was pope for about ten minutes, but found time to give a peace award to a man who invented a filthy weapon of mass-death.
Tallulah Morehead: Dead Folks 2010: Everyone's Pushing Up Roses Tallulah Morehead 2011
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VATICAN CITY — A senior Vatican cardinal defended Pope Benedict during an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square attended by the pope, dismissing criticism of the pontiff's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis as "gossip."
Vatican Defends Pope Benedict Stacy Meichtry 2010
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And finally, that the canonization process of Pope John Paul II be halted until there is a full independent investigation of whether the late pope was involved in cover-ups of Catholic clergy.
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VATICAN CITY — A senior Vatican cardinal defended Pope Benedict during an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square attended by the pope, dismissing criticism of the pontiff's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis as "gossip."
Vatican Defends Pope Benedict Stacy Meichtry 2010
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VATICAN CITY — A senior Vatican cardinal defended Pope Benedict during an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square attended by the pope, dismissing criticism of the pontiff's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis as "gossip."
In Easter Mass, Vatican Defends Benedict Stacy Meichtry 2010
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Indeed, in the wake of much praise for Mayor Bloomberg's defense of civil and religious liberty, let me modestly suggest that he next go to Rome in October and deliver a sequel at Pope Benedict XVI's synod on what the pope recently called the "urgent" plight of Christian minorities in the Middle East.
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VATICAN CITY — A senior Vatican cardinal defended Pope Benedict during an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square attended by the pope, dismissing criticism of the pontiff's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis as "gossip."
Vatican Defends Pope Benedict Stacy Meichtry 2010
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After a New York Times story reported that Pope Benedict XVI (then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) failed to defrock a priest who abused 200 deaf children in Wisconsin, the pope lashed out against the news media.
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VATICAN CITY — A senior Vatican cardinal defended Pope Benedict during an Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square attended by the pope, dismissing criticism of the pontiff's handling of the sexual-abuse crisis as "gossip."
Vatican Defends Pope Benedict Stacy Meichtry 2010
skipvia commented on the word pope
The Pope and the Dope.
April 17, 2008
artbizness commented on the word pope
A long time ago, I was a bit of a full-on Christian. I didn't like swearing, so I took to bellowing "pope" instead of "fuck" or somesuch.
As I saw it, this highlighted the fact that it was ok for people to say "Jesus" as a swearword, but not "pope".
What a wanker I was.
September 19, 2008
vendingmachine commented on the word pope
When I placed brackets around pope's nose and parson's nose (here and below) they link to "pope" and "parson" minus the apostrophe and nose.
June 17, 2015