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1.An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
- Mufti, the Mahometan pope or chief of the religion.
- We often say, that every man has a pope in his belly.
- In þat yle dwelleth the Pope of hire lawe, þat þei clepen lobassy.
2.An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
3.An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
4.The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
- Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.
- Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons, popes, large chub, and eels.

1.To convert to Roman Catholicism.(colloquial)
- I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).
- A prominent Anglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’, that is, left the Church of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.
2.To act as or like a pope.
- Vrban the eight, that now Popeth it.
- He would pope it in his own way, God guiding him.
- I saw where the Pope poped and where the pigeons flocked. Pretty interesting if you're Catholic and like pigeons.

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From Middle English pope, popa, from Old English pāpa, from Vulgar Latin papa (title for priests and bishops, esp.

and by 8th c.

only the bishop of Rome), from early Byzantine Greek παπᾶς (papâs, title for priests and bishops, especially by 3rd c.