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Pontifical

Of or pertaining to a pontiff or high priest as pontifical authority hence belonging to the pope papal...

Dalmatica

A vestment with wide sleeves and with two stripes worn at Mass by deacons and by bishops at pontifical Mass imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia...

Pontific

Relating to or consisting of pontiffs or priests...

Pontificality

The state and government of the pope the papacy...

Pontificate

The state or dignity of a high priest specifically the office of the pope...

Bull [fr. bulla, Lat., a stud or boss], a brief or mandate of the Pope or Bishop of Rome, so called from the seal of lead or gold affixed to it, upon which was engraved on one side an image of St. Paul on the right of a cross, and that of St. Paul on the right of a cross, and that of St. Peter on the left, and on the other the Pope's name, and the year of his pontificate.To procure, publish, or put in use any of these is made treason, punished by death, by 13 Eliz. c. 2. That Act, though long previously obsolete, was not expressly repealed until 1846, and then only by an Act [(English) Religious Disabilities Act, 1846 (9 & 10 Vict. c. 59()] repealing it so far only as the same imposes the penalties or punishments therein mentioned.A cant term used in the Stock Exchange to denote one who has bought stocks or shares with the intention of reselling on a rise in the market value. It may be applied either to a purely speculative purchaser or to one who makes a temporary investment. See BEAR...

Eminence

Eminence, an honorary title given to cardinals. They were called illustrissimi and reverendissimi until the pontificate of Urban VIII....

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