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popeship|ˈpəʊpʃɪp|
[f. pope n.1 + -ship.]
1. The office of pope; popedom, popehood.
c1440Alphabet of Tales 402 He was asoylid, & restorid to com agayn vnto Rome; and he tuke þe popeshup agayn on hand. 1597Beard Theatre God's Judgem. (1612) 358 So he passed the blessed time of his holie Popeship with this vertuous dame. 1640Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. 23 Nov. iii. 8 Hee pleads Popeship under the name of a Patriarch. 1840Carlyle Heroes iv. (1872) 124 Popeship, spiritual Fatherhood of God's Church, is that a vain semblance, of cloth and parchment?
2. The personality of a pope: with possessive pronoun as a humorous appellation.
1640Sir E. Dering in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 100 The Canon-Law, of more use unto his Popeship than both the other. 1705Hickeringill Priest-cr. ii. i. 11 And who dare..question what his Popeship would be at? 1826W. E. Andrews Crit. Rev. Foxe's Bk. Martyrs II. 187 What necessity could there be for all this attention on the part of his royal popeship? |