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Meanings of apostolical in English
Proceeding from or ordered by or subject to a pope or the papacy regarded as the successor of the Apostles.
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Examples for "papal"
Examples for "papal"
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But the papers made no mention of the papal visit to Iraq.
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It included service as papal nuncio to Rwanda, Ethiopia and New Zealand.
3
The storm of papal persecution first burst upon the Waldenses in France.
4
U.S. immigration officials denied at the time there was any papal intervention.
5
At the back of the Italian papal party was the great Hildebrand.
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Bull, notwithstanding all previous apostolic constitutions and rulings, whether general or particular.
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Hence the apostolic office in this special sense passed away with them.
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The result of the labours of these apostolic men was soon evident.
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Another female acts a conspicuous part in connexion with this apostolic visit.
5
St. Paul counseled virginity and most of the apostolic fathers practiced it.
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M. Edgeworth put on his pontifical robes, and began to celebrate mass.
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Expenditure, always charming, becomes under these circumstances a sacred and pontifical act.
3
I noted it, I think, in the case of the pontifical feminine dress.
4
They passed between the pontifical guards, who gave the priest the military salute.
5
A pontifical and warlike nature, a singular thing in a youth.
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My spiritual leader has said fighting in Syria is a legitimate duty.
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It is rejected by us, said Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
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His role was closer to that of a spiritual leader or elder.
4
Your mother is now the spiritual leader of the Second, Willamar said.
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The spiritual leader went into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising.
Usage of apostolical in English
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That apostolical man sent him to his abbey of Solignac, in Limousin.
2
What evidence, then, have we for the fact of the apostolical succession?
3
The apostles of Christ were the first subject of apostolical power.
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This was the apostolical way of teaching the churches at the first plantation thereof.
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Every such case makes a break in the apostolical succession.
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Mortification is always the companion of poverty, in apostolical persons.
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At least it does not hold of the apostolical history.
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That many of these have not been bishops by apostolical succession is quite certain.
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It was in my room and in Manon's presence that he delivered this apostolical harangue.
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That they had their orders from the apostolical see.
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The apostolical succession she may or may not have.
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Both countries retained the episcopal organization founded upon the "apostolical succession."
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A divine and apostolical charter was insisted on, preferably to a legal and parliamentary one.
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The claims of our church to apostolical purity rest on her doctrines, constitution, and services.
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The Reverend Father Douillard strove for the completion of his task with a truly apostolical zeal.
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This pope having heard him preach at Angers, gave him the powers of an apostolical missionary.
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