papicide
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3ADJ.
foul, most, turkish, young
PAPICIDE + NOUN
interrogation
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during
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noun
The killing of a pope.
The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been an actual attempted papicide with witnesses!
If Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured^([sic]) at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.
One who kills (or attempts to kill) a pope.
The ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.
Ilmari? First name of a would-be Turkish papicide? A Libyan omnicide? No, merely that of an apparently mild-mannered Finn whose studies put him at the crossroads of the major influences so patently reflected in his music—those of Rachmaninoff and of the French Impressionists.
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3The story, which would certainly have moved to tears the readers of Fr Bresciani’s feuilletons, smacked too much of invention and was too oozing with edification to be credible. If only there had been
WiktionaryIf Bernard Bec, Peire de Castanet and Arnaud Garsie were, as it seems, telling the truth, it is possible that there occured^([sic]) at Perugia on 7 July 1304 indeed a case of papicide most foul.
WiktionaryThe ineffable self-satisfaction displayed by the young Turkish papicide during his interrogation and trial was not unreasonable.
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