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papacy|ˈpeɪpəsɪ|
[ad. med.L. pāpātia (Florence of Worc. in Du Cange), f. pāpa pope.
Pāpātia appears to have been altered from pāpātus papal office, after other abstract nouns in -ia, e.g. abbātia abbacy.]
1. The office or position of pope (of Rome); tenure of office of a pope.
[a1118Florence of Worcester an. 1044 Hic [Benedictus] cum Papatiam emisset. ]1390Gower Conf. I. 258 This innocent, which was deceived His Papacie anon hath weyved, Renounced and resigned eke. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccliii. (1482) 327 Pope Felyx resygned the hole papacye to Nycholas. 1611Coryat Crudities 121 (Mantua) This Pius Secundus was that learned Pope which before he vntertooke the Papacy was called æneas Syluius. 1759Hume Hist. Eng. I. ii. 111 The hope of attaining the papacy. 1777Watson Philip II (1839) 23 He engaged that such a number of cardinals, partisans of France..should be nominated at the next promotion, as would secure to Henry the absolute disposal of the papacy, in the event of the Pontiff's death.
2. a. The papal system, ecclesiastically or politically; esp. Hist. the papal government as one of the states of Europe.
1550Bale Eng. Votaries ii. B iij, The Papacy of Rome. 1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 135 b, In times paste before the papacye bare rule. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 2 The Venetians are Lords of this Sea: but not without contention with the Papacy. 1624Bedell Lett. x. 136 The Papacie falsely calling it selfe the Church of Rome is such. 1706Cotes tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 16th C. II. iv. xix. 289 We cannot say the Institution of the Papacy comes from Jesus Christ, unless we say that of Episcopacy does so too. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. vi. 285 The preparations for the papacy—that is to say the church ascendancy of Italy and of Rome its centre, had already been carried very far [at end of 4th c.]. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 191 Another Roman Empire, existing by the side of the Papacy.
fig.a1716South Serm. V. xii. 531 There is a Papacy in every Sect, or Faction; they all design the very same Height, or Greatness, though the Pope alone hitherto has had the Wit and Fortune to compass it.
b. = papism.
1914Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. IV. 45 Mr. Jermor seems to have been himself suspected of a leaning towards papacy.
†3. Applied to the Caliphate: cf. popedom.
1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 240 Kaim succeeded in the Papacie Anno Hegiræ 422. |