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A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.

e proposed by Lindley for a group of natural orders, including Ranunculaceæ, Magnoliaceæ, Papaveraceæ, and others related to them.

The red poppy (Papaver Rhoeas). Dr. Prior.

lar channels filled with softer matter, as the nutmeg and the seeds of the North American papaw.

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. Apostolic see. See under Apostolic.

encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity.

ite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims. Cf. Gallicanism.

over, highland plover, hillbird, humility, prairie plover, prairie pigeon, prairie snipe, papabote, quaily, and uplander. -- Upland sumach (Bot.), a North American shrub of the genus Rhus (Rhus glabra), used in tanning and dyeing.

ncil held under Pope Pius IX. in Vatican at Rome, in 1870, which promulgated the dogma of papal infallibility.

The doctrine of papal supremacy; extreme views in support of the authority of the pope; ultramontanism; -- a term used only by persons who are not Roman Catholics.

One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.