papaladj.n.
/ˈpeɪpl/, U.S. /ˈpeɪp(ə)l/ A. adj.† 2. derogatory. Of or relating to popery; = popish adj.1 2. Obsolete.
1.
a. Of or relating to a pope (esp. the bishop of Rome), or the papacy; belonging to the Pope.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [adjective]
papala1393
pontifical1447
apostolic1477
antichristian1532
popal1537
popisha1540
popely1558
papist1562
popelike1563
popan1580
papane1581
pontific1609
popizing1611
papizing1612
pontificious1624
papal1701
papalist1867
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) ii. 2925 (MED) The Pope..Of his Papal Autorite Hath mad and yove the decre.
c1436 Duke Burgundy (Rome) 61 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 88 (MED) Thou shewedest thyself assoilled by a cardinal, The which was withoute power papall.
?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 395 (MED) He causede the body of Formosus..to be brouȝhte to the consistory, and there the clothynge papalle taken awey.
1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 19 Preamble That our seid holy Fader shulde..be sequestered of & fro all Jurisdiccion and admynystracion Papal.
1586 R. Hooker Disc. Justif. in Wks. (1888) III. 489 Holy water,..papal salutations, and such like, which serve for reparations of grace decayed.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 12 To the Three first Titles..were added two more; the Authorities parliamentarie and Papall.
1687 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. Misc. Wks. (1704) 229 Having received the Papal Benediction.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 227 Its Catholick Union scarce ever going any further than the Politick Point of Tolerating one another under the Papal Guaranteeship.
1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc iii. 94 When kingly power conspired with papal craft To plot and perpetrate that massacre.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi II. v. vi. 268 The awful curse of the papal excommunication..seemed to freeze up all the arteries of life.
1883 Daily Tel. 10 Nov. 4/8 A simple monk had dared to consign a Papal decree to the flames.
1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley Italy in Making I. xiv. 199 There had always been Papal representatives at Turin, but since 1750 there had not been a Nuncio.
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo i. 18 The boy appeared from Armagh with the news that Brother Murphy was in urgent need of papal flags.
b. That is a pope.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [adjective]
papala1393
pontifical1447
apostolic1477
antichristian1532
popal1537
popisha1540
popely1558
papist1562
popelike1563
popan1580
papane1581
pontific1609
popizing1611
papizing1612
pontificious1624
papal1701
papalist1867
1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 26 There is Another Beast, spoken of, that was Zealously Concern'd in Procurating all for the Papal Beast.
1809 W. L. Bowles Poems IV. 131 When it bade a ‘Papal Tyrant’ pause And tremble.
1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 144 While it is the dead-throw, the last gasp and termination of life to the Papal Beast.
1907 Catholic Encycl. I. 295/1 The decorations of the church..bespeak..the genius of Bernini and the munificence of his papal patron.
1990 M. Martin Keys of this Blood i. iv. 117 The..fact that he was becoming a sort of papal Marco Polo was in itself a revolution.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [adjective]
RomanisheOE
Laterana1400
Romana1500
papistical1527
popish1528
antichristian1532
pontifical1533
Babylonical1535
papish1538
Romish1538
papistic1545
west1549
catholic1554
catholic1554
mass-monging1556
western1562
Latin1564
Babylonian1567
Babylonish1570
Romish Catholic?1570
Romanist1572
Roman Catholic1587
papala1593
pseudo-catholical1601
Babylonic1602
pseudo-Catholic1605
Romist1605
Romified1609
Babelish1610
papizing1612
pontifician1612
pontificial1614
Romulean1615
papized1639
Romanistical1646
Romanical1664
papagan1679
popish-like1689
Anglo-Roman1766
papicolar1811
Romanistic1829
pre-Reformation1855
papalistic1861
papalized1879
a1593 C. Marlowe Massacre at Paris (c1600) sig. C3v To beat the papall Monarck from our lands.
1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. 1 Peter iv. 8 The Papal Church-tearers, that persecute all that consent not to their Canons.
1815 R. Southey Ode written Dec. 1814 ix, in Minor Poems II. 233 They who from papal darkness, and the thrall Of that worst bondage..Saved us in happy hour.
B. n.
derogatory. = papist n. rare.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun]
papist1528
Romanist1534
Roman1537
Romist1543
papistic1545
popestant1549
flesh-maker1551
mass-monger1551
Romish1551
Pope catholicc1554
popeling1563
catholic1570
Romish Catholic1571
popera1577
Pope worshipper1579
papane1581
Roman Catholic1581
Cacolike1582
Cartholic1582
papisha1595
Babylonian1603
papal1611
popinian1613
Papalin1616
Romulist1620
papicolist1633
western1640
papagan1641
universalist1644
red-letter man1677
RC1691
Azymite1728
papalist1752
craw-thumper1786
catholicist1812
papisher1817
pontifical1832
Romanite1839
dogan1847
mickey1851
redneck1852
mackerel-snatcher1855
Latin1867
Romanensian1885
Roman candle1897
Mick1902
Mick Dooley1905
Mickey Doo1905
left-footer1911
Pape1927
right-footer1929
Doolan1940
tyke1941
Tim1958
mackerel-snapper1960
Teague1971
Mickey Doolan1972
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xxiv. 853/2 To salute this puppet King, and to welcome these papals.
1996 Re: IRA 1: Britain 0 in uk.politics (Usenet newsgroup) 19 July Move all the papals out of Ulster and make the divisions permanent.
Compounds
C1.
papal-imperial adj.
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1859 A. B. Smolnikar Secret Enemies of True Republicanism 17 He remained in the shackles of the infernal Papal Imperial Royal Magnetism.
1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. i. 6 The permanency of the papal-imperial system.
1996 Amer. Hist. Rev. 101 1192/1 Pixton is certainly aware of the unfortunate state of papal-imperial relations during most of this period.
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papal cross n. a cross with three crossbars, a triple cross.
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1857 A. E. Carroll Star of West (ed. 3) 513 It is the white signal of a foe,—a trumpet blown from the Vatican across the Atlantic, to summon Americans to adorn their banner with the papal cross.
1956 R. Tyler Emperor Charles V iii. 51 Who is the person wearing the papal tiara and holding the papal cross?
papal crown n. = papal tiara n.
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1680 E. Settle Female Prelate ii. 21 Yet, what confounds all humane sense to think The Papal Crown's fix'd on this Monster's Brow.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Papel Papal Crown is a deep Cap, or Mitre of Cloth of Gold, encompassed with three Coronets or Circles of Gold, adorn'd with Flowers..having a Globe at top, finished with a Cross.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XXVI. 997/1 The highest prize of all, the papal crown, brought wealth and status to the wearer's family.
papal knight n. (also with capital initials) a member of any of the various orders of papal knighthood.
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1851 Standard 29 July Mr. Aglionby assisted the Papal Knight in baiting Mr. Currie.
1960 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Mar. 885/1 For these services [sc. helping the Catholic poor] he was made a Papal Knight of the Order of St. Gregory.
2014 Church Times 12 Sept. 8/1 He was made a papal knight in 2008, and chaired the all-party parliamentary pro-life group.
papal knighthood n. (also with capital initials) any of various orders of honour conferred by, or in the name of, the Pope, (now) usually in recognition of services to the Roman Catholic Church.
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1855 John Bull 6 Jan. 7/1 Papal Knighthood.—The Tablet states:—‘That..the Pope has conferred..the title of Knight of the Order of St. Gregory’.
1953 Catholic Hist. Rev. 39 99 He received..a papal knighthood in recognition of his contributions to the cause of Junípero Serra.
2012 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 May 36/3 Less well known is the Papal Knighthood that Morrell received in the same year, in recognition of his work for sick and disabled people—for many years he was deeply involved in pilgrimages to Lourdes.
Papal State n. any of the territories over which the Pope exercised sovereignty, esp. (in plural) those in central Italy (now historical except with reference to the Vatican, which was established as an independent state in 1929).
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the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Italy > [noun] > Papal States
statesa1571
Ecclesiastical State(s)1689
Papal State1818
1818 N. Amer. Rev. May 44 In May 1809,..the Papal states, which had been for some time in possession of French troops, were declared united with the empire.
1843 (title) Handbook for travellers in central Italy, including the Papal States, Rome, and the cities of Etruria.
1929 Times 28 May 16/7 With the Treaty of the Lateran in force, the Royal procession must be met at the boundary of the new Papal State.
1992 Beaver Aug. 37/1 The revolutionary armies of Garibaldi and Victor Emmanuel II who were seeking Italian unification and an end to the last of the Papal States.
papal tiara n. an ornate cap with three coronets, used in the coronation of the Pope and as a symbol of his authority.
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1827 Times 24 Dec. 3/3 The son of a herdsman, whom fortune had raised to the cardinal's hat or Papal tiara.
1860 J. Gardner Faiths World II. 601/2 Hildebrand accepted of the papal tiara under the title of Gregory VII.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 64/3 Lawlessness can only be stopped by something from which there is no appeal. It may be custom, or conscience, or a papal tiara, or a dagger, but it is always a something.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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