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popedom|ˈpəʊpdəm|
[Late OE. pápdóm, f. pápa pope n.1 + -dóm, -dom.]
1. The office, position, or dignity of pope (of Rome); the tenure of office of a pope; = papacy 1.
a1123O.E. Chron. an. 1118 Ðises ᵹeares eac forðferde se papa Paschalis. & feng Iohan of Gaitan to þam papdome. a1154Ibid. an. 1124 Honorius feng to pape dom. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 74 Thai had na rycht to the pape dome. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 103 Geuen at Laterane the tenth yere of our popedome. 1678Wanley Wond. Lit. World v. i. §74. 466/1 Leo..received the Popedom at the Emperours hands. 1741Lady Pomfret Lett. (1805) III. 76 The riches acquired by the family in the long popedom of their uncle, Urban the Eighth. 1825Ld. Cockburn Mem. 239 After as much plotting as if it had been for the Popedom he got in [to the town Council].
b. transf. and fig. Applied to a position of supreme authority in any religious system; also, satirically, in other capacities.
1588Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 22 Walde-graues profession ouerthroweth the popedome of Lambehith. 1589Hay any Work 34 Good Iohn of Canterbury leaue thy Popedome. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 239 After this time was the Caliphate or Popedome diuided. 1836Pop. Encycl. I. 814/1 He continued to be called caliph,..and bequeathed the Mohammedan popedom to his posterity. 1837Lockhart Scott xxxiv, Absurdities into which his reverence for the popedom of Paternoster-Row led him.
2. The papal government; esp. as a political state; = papacy 2.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. v. Wks. 1851 III. 116 What the Bishop hath laid together to make plea for Prelaty... Though indeed, if it may stand, it will inferre Popedome all as well. 1676Doctrine of Devils 21 Yet now are many such broachars..within the Popedom. 1820H. Matthews Diary of Invalid 206 His Holiness claims feudal superiority over the kingdom, as a fief of the Popedom. 1880Shorthouse J. Inglesant xxiv, Bologna..delivered itself up to the Popedom upon a capitulation.
b. An ecclesiastical polity resembling the papacy.
1545Brinklow Compl. xiv. (1874) 36 Lesse there shuld want anything to a perfyght pope dome, the bisshops caused a proclamacyon to be set out in the kyngs name, that from henseforth the ceremonyes of the church, that were of the popys makyng, shuld no more be taken for the popys ceremonys, but the kyngs. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. iv. Wks. 1851 III. 289 A Church-government, which wants almost no circumstance, but only a name to be a plaine Popedome. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 96 The lay-magistrates, who were further mortified to see Ministers among the Representatives..cried out, ‘This is a presbyterial popedom’. 1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. III. 2520/1 Flacius, with whom he labored at one time for the establishment of a Lutheran popedom.
Hence erron. † ˈpopedomship. Obs.
1588J. Aske Eliz. Triumphans 6 His Popedomship with Myter, Crowns & Crosse, Are all bestow'd on Pius quintus grace. |