papal
/ˈpeɪp(ə)l
/adjective
Relating to a pope or to the papacy: a papal visit...
- There the coffin will be definitively closed with red bands, sealed with both papal and Vatican seals.
- Ruffo was a Calabrian who had served in the papal curia but had found more favour at the Neapolitan court.
- Anglo-Saxon veneration of the papacy was strong and contributed to the growth of papal authority in the West.
Derivatives
papally
- Pundits also suggested that the teaching was bound to change, given the logic of the Second Vatican Council and the existence of a papally appointed commission on the regulation of fertility.
- The eleventh century witnessed a new Christian attitude toward war: that it could be divinely inspired, or at least papally commended, if not commanded.
- Bartholomew's presence at the controversial crowning of Henry the Young King is uncertain, but Becket asked that he should not be papally censured with others involved.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, from medieval Latin papalis, from ecclesiastical Latin papa 'bishop (of Rome)'.
Rhymes
- class warfare
- class warrior
- class-wise
- class word
- classwork
- classy
- clast
- clastic
- clathrate
- clathrin
- clatter
- clattering
- clatty
- Claude glass
- structure dependency
- structure-dependent
- structuredness
- structured programming
- Structured Query Language
- structured settlement
- structure formula
- structure-independent
- structureless
- structurely
- structure mill