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Pope   /poʊp/   Listen
Pope

noun
1.
The head of the Roman Catholic Church.  Synonyms: Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, pontiff, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ.
2.
English poet and satirist (1688-1744).  Synonym: Alexander Pope.



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... eminent physician, who was born at Ragusa, in 1668, and was educated at Naples and Paris. Pope Clement XIV., on the ground of his great merit, appointed him, while a very young man, Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the College of Sapienza, at Rome. He wrote several works, and did much to promote the cause of medical science. He ...
— A Treatise on Domestic Economy - For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School • Catherine Esther Beecher

... 597 Augustine, prior of a Roman monastery, was sent by Pope Gregory the Great with forty monks, to convert the English. Ethelbert, King of Kent, and most powerful of the English kinglets, was married to Bertha, a Christian princess. She had brought with her a chaplain and it was probably at her invitation or through her influence, that the monks were sent. ...
— The History of London • Walter Besant

... with his two companions, travelled on towards Rome, the city of cities where dwelt the Pope, in those days the head of all Christendom. And as they were resting by the roadside Jack said to his companions, "Who would have thought it? One of us is going to be ...
— Europa's Fairy Book • Joseph Jacobs

... a place in literature, for one of the Carylls was Pope's friend, John (1666-1736), a nephew of the diplomatist and dramatist. Pope's Caryll, who suggested The Rape of the Lock, lived at Lady Holt at West Harting (long destroyed) and also at West Grinstead, where, as we shall see, the ...
— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... They pointed out the Pope's Miter, the Virgin's Veil, the Altar, the Boat —all looking about as much like their names as an apple looks like a pack of cards. After being shown the lake I begged for fresh air, and we mounted the steep wooden stairs. The hot air ...
— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone


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