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si/, U.S. /pepsi/ Forms: ME papassie, ME-15 papacye, ME-16 papacie, 15 pepecy, 15- papacy. [< post-classical Latin papatia (a1118 in Florence of Worcester), probably representing an alteration of post-classical Latin papatus PAPATE n., after other abstract nouns in -ia (compare -Y suffix3), e.g. abbatia abbacy (see ABBATIE n.). Compare PAPATE n.]
1. a. The office or position of Pope; the tenure or period of office of a pope.
a1393 GOWER Confessio Amantis (Fairf.)
II. 2930 This innocent..His Papacie anon hath weyved, Renounced, and resigned.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 34 He decessid..the
ere of oure Lorde mclxxiiij, Of the Papassie of blesside Alexawndir the third xv
ere.
1480 CAXTON Chron. Eng. (1482) ccliii. 327 Pope Felyx resygned the hole papacye to Nycholas.
1550 J. BALE Actes Eng. Votaryes II. 11 Theophylactus..whych after .xv. yeares solde the Papacy to Johan Gracyan hys sorcerouse companyon.
1586 J. FERNE Blazon of Gentrie 128 Clement 5 then sitting in his papacy.
1611 T. C
ORYATE Crudities sig. L6, [Mantua] This Pius Secundus was that learned Pope which before he vntertooke the Papacy was called Æneas Syluius.
1674 tr. Machiavelli
Florentine Hist. I. 35 Till such a time as the Papacy came to Alexander the Third.
1759 D. HUME Hist. Eng. I. ii. 111 The hope of attaining the papacy.
1777 R. WATSON Hist. Reign Philip II I.
II. 34 He engaged that such a number of cardinals, partisans of France..should be nominated at the next promotion, as would secure to Henry the absolute disposal of the papacy, in the event of the pontiff's death.
1823 C. BUTLER Contin. A. Butler's Lives Saints v. 193 The death of the pope, after the short papacy of twenty-seven days.
1877 Atlantic Monthly Oct. 416/2 If not the last Pope who made the foundation of a princely family the main object of his papacy, he was [etc.].
1934 G. S
ELDES Vatican v. 94 Certain cardinals always are
papabili, or in line for the papacy.
2000 Church Times 10 Nov. 14/2 As we move towards the end of a papacy..it is scarcely surprising that differences can be seen in the approaches of different dicasteries.
b. In extended use: = CALIPHATE n 1. Obs. rare.
1613 S. PURCHAS Pilgrimage 240 Kaim succeeded in the Papacie Anno Hegiræ 422.
2. The system of ecclesiastical or political government headed by the Pope; the papal government or administration. Also fig.
1535 T. CRANMER Let. 27 Apr. in
Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O. SP 3/2) f. 76, It is not the person of the bisshop of Rome..but the veray papacye, and the see of Rome, whiche hath by thair lawes suppressed Christe and sett vp the Busshop of that see as a gode of this worlde.
1553 T. BECON Relikes of Rome (1563) f. 135
b, In times paste before the papacye bare rule
1615 G. SANDYS Relation of Journey 2 The Venetians are Lords of this Sea: but not without contention with the Papacy.
a1716 R. SOUTH Serm. V. xii. 531 There is a Papacy in every Sect, or Faction; they all design the very same Height, or Greatness, though the Pope alone hitherto has had the Wit and Fortune to compass it.
1761 D. HUME Hist. Eng. I. viii. 167 The schism of the Papacy between Alexander and Victor.
1835 I. TAYLOR Spiritual Despotism vi. 285 The preparations for the
papacy
that is to say the church ascendancy of Italy and of Rome its centre, had already been carried very far [at end of 4th cent.].
1875 B. JOWETT tr. Plato
Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 191 Another Roman Empire, existing by the side of the Papacy.
1934 J. E. N
EALE Queen Elizabeth xv. 251 In all but name the Papacy was at war with Elizabeth.
1959 R. A. G
RAHAM Vatican Diplomacy vii. 185 Could the papacy..be properly regarded [after
1870] as a member of the international community of the law of nations?
2000 Renaissance No. 17. 65/2 The report laid the corruption, nest-feathering, and plain ignorance of many clerics squarely at the door of the papacy.
3. Freq. derogatory. The doctrines and practices of Roman Catholicism; support for or adherence to the Roman Catholic Church. Cf. PAPISM n.
1599 E. SANDYS Europæ Speculum (1605) sig. T 3, The vntractablenesse of Papacy to it.
c1665 L. HUTCHINSON Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 38 When the dawne of the Gospell began to breake upon this Isle after the darke midnight of Papacy.
1823 N. Amer. Rev. 16 240 That a dread of papacy should at one period have been entertained is not surprising, but it is surely time to have done with it.
1858 E. H. SEARS Athanasia III. ii. 268 Out of this belief papacy shaped its purgatory and practised on human credulity and fear.
1914 Trans. Shropshire Archæol. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 4 45 Mr. Jermor seems to have been himself suspected of a leaning towards papacy.
1991 A. B
ORROWDALE Distorted Images xii. 133 My upbringing was in a church where we changed ‘catholic’ to ‘universal’ in the creed to avoid any hint of papacy.
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