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Papaw :: Papaw (n.) A tree (Carica Papaya) of tropical America, belonging to the order Passifloreae. It has a soft, spongy stem, eighteen or twenty feet high, crowned with a tuft of large, long-stalked, palmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon-shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled..

Papalize :: Papalize (v. t.) To make papal.

Pontificial :: Pontificial (a.) Papal; pontifical.

Papa :: Papa (n.) A parish priest in the Greek Church.

See :: See (n.) Specifically: (a) The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. (b) The seat of an archibishop; a province or jurisdiction of an archibishop; as, an 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..

Infallibilist :: Infallibilist (n.) One who accepts or maintains the dogma of papal infallibility.

Penitentiaryship :: Penitentiaryship (n.) The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.

Protopapas :: Protopapas (n.) A protopope.

Bullary :: Bullary (n.) A collection of papal bulls.

Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..

Ragman :: Ragman (n.) A document having many names or numerous seals, as a papal bull..

Camerlingo :: Camerlingo (n.) The papal chamberlain; the cardinal who presides over the pope's household. He has at times possessed great power.

Papality :: Papality (n.) The papacy.

Gallicanism :: Gallicanism (n.) The principles, tendencies, or action of those, within the Roman Catholic Church in France, who (esp. in 1682) sought to restrict the papal authority in that country and increase the power of the national church..

Abbreviator :: Abbreviator (n.) One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form..

Paparchy :: Paparchy (n.) Government by a pope; papal rule.

Popedom :: Popedom (n.) The place, office, or dignity of the pope; papal dignity..

Abdicate :: Abdicate (v. t.) To surrender or relinquish, as sovereign power; to withdraw definitely from filling or exercising, as a high office, station, dignity; as, to abdicate the throne, the crown, the papacy..

Apostolical :: Apostolical (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope or the papacy; papal.

Vaticanist :: Vaticanist (n.) One who strongly adheres to the papal authority; an ultramontanist.

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