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from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or connected with a locality in Rome called the Lateran: as, the Lateran palace or basilica; the Lateran councils.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world.
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- proper noun A
church andpalace inRome ; used attributively to describe several councils and treaties
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- noun the site in Rome containing the church of Rome and the Lateran Palace
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Examples
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There was a worthy old woman at Cults whose place in church was what is commonly called the Lateran; a kind of small gallery at the top of the pulpit steps.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874
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The obelisk in the square before the church of St. John Lateran is ascribed not to Rameses the Great but to Thoutmos
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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New Liturgical Movement: Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of CDW, Celebrates Solemn Pontifical Usus Antiquior Mass in Lateran Today skip to main | skip to sidebar
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Cardinal Cañizares Llovera, Prefect of CDW, Celebrates Solemn Pontifical Usus Antiquior Mass in Lateran Today by
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He and a number of other people now have changed the focus from St. Peter's Square briefly to the Church of St. John's in Lateran, which is across town.
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The gathering in the great hall of the Lateran was a multicolored, murmuring blur.
The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963
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Moreouer, through the kings request, pope Celestine this yeare made the archbishop of Canturburie legat of all England by his buls directed to him, bearing date at his palace in Rome called Lateran the fifteenth kalends of Aprill, in the fourth yeare of his papasie.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First Raphael Holinshed
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Lateran, which is the representative cathedral of the Papacy and the mother church of Christendom, and to the Lateran Palace, for a thousand years the residence of the Popes of Rome.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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According to de Rossi the centre of episcopal administration before the Lateran was a
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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From the beginning of the fourth century, when it was given to the pope by Constantine, the palace of the Lateran was the principal residence of the popes, and continued so for about a thousand years.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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