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A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See Apostolical brief, under Brief. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. A…

on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it.

To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.

fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury. "Buoyant on the flood." Pope.

ater. Shak. Burning with high hope. Byron. The groan still deepens, and the combat burns. Pope. The parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire. Milton.

rs, such as angels weep, burst forth. Milton. And now you burst (ah cruel!) from my arms. Pope. A resolved villain Whose bowels suddenly burst out. Shak. We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea. Coleridge. To burst upon him like an earthquake. Goldsmith.

To branch thickly in the manner of a bush. "The bushing alders." Pope.

Wearing buskins. Her buskined virgins traced the dewy lawn. Pope.

Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad. Pope.

ng labors both by sea and land he bore. Dryden. By land, by water, they renew the charge. Pope.

To ease the body by stool; to go to stool. Pope.

ords, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables. "Cacophonies of all kinds." Pope.

A plan proposed to the Pope in 1891 by P. P. Cahensly, a member of the German parliament, to divide the foreign-born population of the United States, for ecclesiastical purposes, according to European nationalities, and to appoint bishops and priests of like race and speaking the same language as the majority of the me…

ranquil; quiet in act or speech. "Calm and sinless peace." Milton. "With calm attention." Pope. Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure. Keble.

The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power. [Written also camerlengo and camarlengo.]

A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock.

a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the Castletons bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.

Of or pertaining to a chapter; capitulary. From the pope to the member of the capitular body. Milman.

1. (R.C.Ch.) One of the ecclesiastical prince who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college. The clerics of the supreme Chair are called Cardinals, as undoubtedly adhering more nearly to the hinge by which all things are moved. Pope Leo IX.