popedomn.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1118 Ðises geares eac forðferde se papa Paschalis, & feng Iohan of Gaitan to þam papdome.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1124 Honorius feng to papedom.

?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Paris) (1971) 9 In Auyoun..of þe popedome [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. pontificate; L. Pontificatus] of Vrbane þe fifte, þe firste ȝere..I haue compiled þis werk.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 69 Thai had na rycht, to the pape done.

1535 tr. Dyaloge Jullius (new ed.) sig. E4 They dispute of myne auctoryte and power, whether I came by ye popedom by reason of my good lyuing, or no.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 103 Geuen at Laterane the tenth yere of our popedome.

c1600 W. Fowler tr. N. Machiavelli Prince in Wks. (1936) II. 93 Efter this Julyis Secundis succeided in the papedome.

1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §74. 466/1 Leo..received the Popedom at the Emperours hands.

1741 Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) III. 76 The riches acquired by the family in the long popedom of their uncle, Urban the Eighth.

1780 C. Cowley Ladies Hist. Eng. iv. 78/1 There was at that time a kind of rivalry for the holy see, another person aspiring to the popedom.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) iv. 239 After as much plotting as if it had been for the Popedom he got in [to the town Council].

1882 Manitoba Daily Free Press 29 Apr. 5/1 There is a possibility that what may be called the greatest ecclesiastical prize in the world, hardly excepting even the Popedom, may shortly become vacant.

1933 E. Peacey St. Birgitta xi. 221 Neither had the women he had met before his Popedom inspired him with the saintliness of their lives.

2003 Times Herald (Port Huron, Mich.) (Nexis) 27 Dec. 4 b Ask me to name someone who absolutely never will stand a chance at popedom, and I'll tell you: Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao of Japan.

1582 in A. Shields Hind Let Loose (1687) iv. 62 In the King's Person, some men press to erect a new Popedome, as though he could not be full King of this Commonwealth, unless as well the spiritual as temporal Sword be put in his hand.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 24 Walde-graues profession ouerthroweth the popedome of Lambehith.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 239 After this time was the Caliphate or Popedome diuided.

1671 T. Tenison Let. 6 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 557 Philosophers beleive not at this day, (neither did many of them, before ye deposing of Aristotle from his Popedome) that Fire is actually in a Flint, but only in ye potentiall atoms of it.

1836 Pop. Encycl. I. 814/1 He continued to be called caliph,..and bequeathed the Mohammedan popedom to his posterity.

1837 J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott xxxiv Absurdities into which his reverence for the popedom of Paternoster-Row led him.

1870 N.Y. Herald 26 July 9/1 It is the identical excuse of nearly all of the Mormon Protestants who have risen against the Popedom of Brigham Young.

?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xiv. sig. D6 Lesse there shuld want anything to a perfyght pope dome, the bisshops caused a proclamacyon to be set out in the kyngs name, that from hense forth the ceremonyes of the church, that were of the popys makyng, shuld no more be taken for the popys ceremonys, but the kyngs.

1583 Answeare Def. Censure Charkes Bk. f. 51 This were to make the Churche [of England] a monster, not subiect vnto her head Iesus Christ, but subiecte to a mortall man, whiche were indeede to erect a newe Popedome.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 30 A Church-government, which wants almost no circumstance, but only a name to be a plaine Popedome.

1716 Protesters Vindicated vii. 136 The Magistrates depriving Ministers of the Exercise of their Ministry, is a Robbing our Lord Jesus Christ of his Kingly Power,..setting up a new Popedom.

1781 S. Peters Gen. Hist. Connecticut 96 The lay-magistrates, who were further mortified to see Ministers among the Representatives..cried out, ‘This is a presbyterial popedom’.

1849 Times 30 May 8/1 His object was to erect a Protestant popedom, with indirect but absolute authority.

1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2520/1 Flacius, with whom he labored at one time for the establishment of a Lutheran popedom.

1919 Times 5 Nov. 8/2 The Caliphate, which European ignorance and imagination exaggerates and regards as a sort of Popedom of Islam.

1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xvi. 632 Nowe these many yeares all things haue bene solde in the Popedome for money.

1622 H. Wotton Let. in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) II. 253 Now the Empire grew lank, and the Popedom tumourous.

1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 17 What the Bishop hath laid together to make plea for Prelaty... Though indeed, if it may stand, it will inferre Popedome all as well.

1674 G. Fox For All Bishops & Priests 48 Look in all your Bishopricks, Popedoms and other Jurisdictions, and see if you do not feed your Flocks for filthy Lucre Sake.

1676 Doctr. of Devils 21 Yet now are many such broachars..within the Popedom.

1793 J. Gordon Terraquea II. 136 The greatest ecclesiastical state, next after the Roman Popedom, in the Christian world, owes its first origin to Winifried, or Boniface.

1820 H. Matthews Diary of Invalid 206 His Holiness claims feudal superiority over the kingdom, as a fief of the Popedom.

1880 J. H. Shorthouse John Inglesant xxiv Bologna..delivered itself up to the Popedom upon a capitulation.

1913 Times 27 Dec. 7/4 Plausible grounds for supposing that the vast international power of the Popedom..was..under the control, or the influence, of the Italian Government.

1940 H. W. Rudman Ital. Nationalism & Eng. Lett. iv. 69 Italy itself was divided into eight states (Lombardy, Parma, Tuscany, Modena, Lucca, the Popedom, Piedmont, the Kingdom of Naples).