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7 words match “PAPACY”

PAPACY n. 3 definitions
The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction.
ABDICATE v.
xercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy.
APOSTOLIC; APOSTOLICAL a.
Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal. Apostolical brief. See under Brief. -- Apostolic canons, a collection of rules and precepts relating to the duty of Christians, and particularly to the ceremonies and discipline of the church in the second and third centuries. -- Apostolic church, the Christian churc…
PAPALITY n.
The papacy. [Obs.] Ld. Berners. Milton.
PAPALTY n.
The papacy. [Obs.] Milton.
PONTIFICALITY n.
The state and government of the pope; the papacy. [R.] Bacon.
PONTIFICIAN n.
One who adheres to the pope or papacy; a papist. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.