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noun

Pope n.

Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. (Obs.)

The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

(Zool.) A fish; the ruff.

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.

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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... colored woman named Belle Pope Calhoun who played the piano at parties given for white children—nice white children that would have passed Curtis Carlyle with a sniff. But the ragged little "poh white" used to sit beside her piano by the hour and try to get in an alto ...

— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald

... Borghese family. As for her husband, there were thousands of Liberals far and wide who spoke of him as the greatest scoundrel unhung, for he was at the head of the Roman police, and I verily believe knew more iniquity than the Pope himself. It would have been against all nature and precedent if I had not become his dear friend and protege, which I did accordingly, for I liked him very much indeed, and Heaven knows that such ...

— Memoirs • Charles Godfrey Leland

... the Ariosto of Cobham, the Jeune Homme au Gant, the Portrait of a Man in the Alte Pinakothek of Munich, and perhaps the famous Concert of the Pitti, ascribed to Giorgione. Both Crowe and Cavalcaselle and M. Georges Lafenestre[12] have called attention to the fact that the detested Borgia Pope died on the 18th of August 1503, and that the work cannot well have been executed after that time. He would have been a bold man who should have attempted to introduce the portrait of Alexander VI. into a votive picture painted immediately after his death! How is it possible to assume, ...

— The Earlier Work of Titian • Claude Phillips

... conversations about Leotade, M. Guizot, the Pope, the insurrection at Palermo, and the banquet of the Twelfth Arrondissement, which had caused some disquietude. Frederick eased his mind by railing against Power, for he longed, like Deslauriers, to turn the whole world ...

— Sentimental Education, Volume II - The History of a Young Man • Gustave Flaubert

... probably nothing else that weighs on your heart than that you may reap much grain on your field. But I am accustomed to receive communications from the Emperor about how it will go with his crown; and from the Pope, about how it will go with his keys.' 'Such things cannot be easy to answer,' said the peasant. 'I have also heard that no one seems to go from here without being dissatisfied ...

— The Wonderful Adventures of Nils • Selma Lagerlof

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