patrimony of St Peter
noun
(Originally) †the property belonging to the Church (obsolete ); (in later use) territory held by the Pope in the vicinity of Rome, the Papal States (now historical ).
Origin
Late 15th century; earliest use found in John Lydgate (c1370–c1449), poet and prior of Hatfield Regis.
- protist
- Protista
- protistan
- protistic
- protistologist
- protistology
- protium
- proto-
- protoanemonin
- proto-architect
- proto-Atlantic
- proto-biface
- protobiont
- protobird
- protobranch
- protocanonical
- protocatechuic
- protocell
- protoceratops
- protocercal
- protocerebrum
- proto-chemist
- proto-chemistry
- protochlorophyll
- protochordate