Vatican Definition

vătĭ-kən
noun
The papal residence, consisting of a group of buildings in Vatican City.
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Papal government or authority.
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Synonyms:
  • Vatican Palace
  • papal palace
  • rome
  • the Papacy
adjective
Of this residence, government, or authority.
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Designating either of the Roman Catholic Ecumenical Councils held in St. Peter's Basilica in 1869-70 (Vatican I) or 1962-65 (Vatican II)
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Origin of Vatican

  • Latin Vaticānus (mōns) , the Vatican (Hill)

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vatican Sentence Examples

  • Not long after the return of the pope the amity between the Vatican and the Tuileries was again broken.

  • Joseph Bonaparte, then occupaFrench envoy to the Vatican, encouraged democratic tion of manifestations; and one of them, at the close of 1797, Rome.

  • How this MS. came to be in the Vatican is not known.

  • In Italy, by a departure from the traditional policy of the Roman Church, the newly formed "Pious Society of St Jerome for the Dissemination of the Holy Gospels" issued in 1901 from the Vatican press a new Italian version of the Four Gospels and Acts.

  • The two existing manuscripts of the Liber are in the Vatican library, Rome, and in the library of St Ambrose at Milan.

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