Vatican
['vætikən]
Definition
(noun.) the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City.
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Definition
(n.) A magnificent assemblage of buildings at Rome, near the church of St. Peter, including the pope's palace, a museum, a library, a famous chapel, etc.
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Definition
n. an assemblage of buildings on the Vatican hill in Rome including one of the pope's palaces: the papal authority.—ns. Vat′icanism the system of theology and ecclesiastical government based on absolute papal authority ultramontanism; Vat′icanist one who upholds such a system.—Vatican Codex a famous uncial MS. of the Greek Testament of the 4th century in the Vatican library at Rome; Vatican Council the Twentieth Ecumenical Council according to popish reckoning which met 8th December 1869 and proclaimed the Infallibility of the Pope.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of the vatican, signifies unexpected favors will fall within your grasp. You will form the acquaintance of distinguished people, if you see royal personages speaking to the Pope.
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Examples
- It makes me dizzy, to think of the Vatican--of its wilderness of statues, paintings, and curiosities of every description and every age. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Yesterday we spent three or four hours in the Vatican, again, that wonderful world of curiosities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And Mr. Casaubon was certain to remain away for some time at the Vatican. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In their Vatican is stored up all that is curious and beautiful in art; in our Patent Office is hoarded all that is curious or useful in mechanics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But intellectually and morally their successors at the Lateran and the Vatican[354] were not equal to their opportunities. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I haunted the Vatican, and stood surrounded by marble forms of divine beauty. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I can not write about the Vatican. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I was not aware that you and Mr. Casaubon were in Rome, until this morning, when I saw you in the Vatican Museum, he said. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He goes to read in the Library of the Vatican every day, and you can hardly see him except by an appointment. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nobody else ever did, in the Vatican museums. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Vatican and the Patent Office are governmental noses, and they bear a deal of character about them. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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