noun
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
Þa wæs in þa tid Uitalius papa þæs apostolican seðles aldorbiscop.
The Pope is not going to issue a bull condemning the Spanish Church's support of France and destroy the Church's right to exist in Spain.
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.
Burne-Jones... accepted him [Dante Gabriel Rossetti] as the infallible Pope of Art.
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy.
Mufti, the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
Eche day there etyn in his court xii erchebeshopis and xx bishopis, and the patriak of Seynt Thomays is as here pope.
Ramone, known as ‘the Pope of Pop’ is one of the top record producer-engineers in the world.
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning the pope, and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription […]
As York's succession was challenged by burning the pope, the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.
verb
To act as or like a pope.
1537, T. Cromwell in R. B. Merriman, Life & Lett. Cromwell (1902), II. 89
Vrban the eight, that now Popeth it.
To convert to Roman Catholicism.
I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).
A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.
noun
Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
When made with Burgundy or Bordeaux, the mixture was called Bishop; when with old Rhenish, its name was Cardinal; and when with Tokay, it was dignified with the title of Pope.
‘Pope’, i.e. mulled burgundy, is Antichristian, from no mere Protestant point of view.