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 An Eastern Orthodox
priest . - 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 .
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
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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
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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