unpopev.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpəʊp/, U.S. /ˌənˈpoʊp/ transitive. To revoke the office or authority of (a pope); to deprive (a person) of papal authority or status. Frequently reflexive.
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1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 13/1 Benedictus vnderstanding them to be set against him..vnpoped him self.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. xi. 217 Rome will never so farr un-Pope it self, as to part with her pretended Supremacy and Infallibility.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. xii. 212 They took the boldness to un-pope four of their Infallibilities.
a1729 E. Taylor Metrical Hist. Christianity (1962) 364 The Cardinalls up rise And unpope Benit.
1784 W. Richards Hist. Antichrist ii. 37 Who will expect..to see a Pope copying after the example of the meek..and self-denying Jesus?—The very attempt would unpope him at once.
1861 Bradford Observer 8 Aug. 4/4 Ricasoli will give the Pope so much power as to unpope himself.
1880 R. Browning Pietro 403 We're Pope—once Pope, you can't unpope us!
1972 M. Martin Three Popes & Cardinal iv. iv. 77 A whole series of dynamisms..within the Roman Church and within Christianity..unpoped Paul.
2005 S. Tompkins Short Hist. Christianity ii. v. 101 Henry..and his bishops declared Hildebrand unpoped.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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