pope

7 definitions found

pope - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Pope \Pope\ (p[=o]p), n. [AS. p[=a]pa, L. papa father, bishop.
     Cf. Papa, Papal.]
     1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. [Obs.] --Foxe.
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     2. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church.
        See Note under Cardinal.
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     3. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.
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     4. (Zool.) A fish; the ruff.
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     Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with
        compartments.
  
     Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of
        the thigh of an ox or sheep. --R. D. Blackmore.
  
     Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See
        Uropygium.
  
     to be more Catholic than the Pope to adhere more
        stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than
        is required by church doctrine; -- usually used in a
        negative sense to mean, to be excessively pious.
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  Puffin \Puf"fin\ (p[u^]f"f[i^]n), n. [Akin to puff.]
     1. (Zool.) An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to
        the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence
        the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy,
        coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea  parrot
        .
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     Note: The name is also applied to other related species, as
           the horned puffin (Fratercula corniculata), the
           tufted puffin (Lunda cirrhata), and the razorbill.
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     Manx puffin, the Manx shearwater. See under Manx.
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     2. (Bot.) The puffball.
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     3. A sort of apple. [Obs.] --Rider's Dict. (1640).
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  Ruff \Ruff\, Ruffe \Ruffe\, n. [OE. ruffe.] (Zool.)
     A small freshwater European perch (Acerina vulgaris); --
     called also pope, blacktail, and stone perch, or
     striped perch.
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pope - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  pope
      n 1: the head of the Roman Catholic Church [syn: pope,
           Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Holy Father
           , Vicar of Christ, Bishop of Rome]
      2: English poet and satirist (1688-1744) [syn: Pope,
         Alexander Pope]

pope - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Pope, MS (village, FIPS 59240)
    Location: 34.21366 N, 89.94763 W
    Population (1990): 171 (73 housing units)
    Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 38658

pope - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  POPE. The chief of the catholic religion is so called. He is a temporal 
  prince. He is elected by certain officers called cardinals, and remains in 
  power during life. In the 9th Collation of the Authentics it is declared the 
  bishop of Rome hath the first place of sitting in all assemblies, and the 
  bishop of Constantinople the second. Ridley's View, part 1, chap. 3, sect. 
  10. 
       2. The pope has no political authority in the United States. 
  
  

pope - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  36 Moby Thesaurus words for "pope":
     Grand Penitentiary, Holy Father, abuna, antipope, archbishop,
     archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal,
     cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain,
     coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch,
     high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff,
     prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean,
     suffragan, vicar