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Papalize :: Papalize (v. i.) To conform to popery.

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

Papalist :: Papalist (n.) A papist.

Monsignore :: Monsignore (n.) My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.).

Pontifical :: Pontifical (a.) Of or pertaining to a pontiff, or high priest; as, pontifical authority; hence, belonging to the pope; papal..

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church.

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

Papacy :: Papacy (n.) The office and dignity of the pope, or pontiff, of Rome; papal jurisdiction..

Bulla :: Bulla (n.) A leaden seal for a document; esp. the round leaden seal attached to the papal bulls, which has on one side a representation of St. Peter and St. Paul, and on the other the name of the pope who uses it..

Provisor :: Provisor (n.) One who procures or receives a papal provision. See Provision, 6..

Bullantic :: Bullantic (a.) Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls..

Papally :: Papally (adv.) In a papal manner; popishl.

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..

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

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

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

Tiara :: Tiara (n.) The pope's triple crown. It was at first a round, high cap, but was afterward encompassed with a crown, subsequently with a second, and finally with a third. Fig.: The papal dignity..

Infallible :: Infallible (a.) Incapable of error in defining doctrines touching faith or morals. See Papal infallibility, under Infallibility..

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..

Papal :: Papal (a.) Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction..

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