pope

Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Origin: AS. pāpa, L. papa father, bishop. Cf. Papa, Papal.

1. Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop. obsolete or Fox, John Foxe

2. The bishop of Rome, the head of the Roman Catholic Church. See Note under Cardinal.

3. A parish priest, or a chaplain, of the Greek Church.

4. Zoology A fish; the ruff.

Pope Joan, a game at cards played on a round board with compartments. — Pope's eye, the gland surrounded with fat in the middle of the thigh of an ox or sheep. Richard Doddridge Blackmore — Pope's nose, the rump, or uropygium, of a bird. See Uropygium. — to be more Catholic than the Pope to adhere more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine; — usually used in a negative sense to mean, to be excessively pious.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: +PJC