popehood
(ˈpəʊphʊd)
[OE. pápan-hád, f. pápa, pope n.1 + -hád, -hood.]
The condition of being pope; the papal dignity.
| c 1000 ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 126 Hwæt ða Gregorius, siððan he papan-had underfeng. 1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 85 Þe pope Iohn satte in his popehode sex monthes. c 1449 Pecock Repr. (Rolls) 439 Popehode is of the wil of Crist to be had in sum person to be chose as the successour of Peter. 1838 Longfellow Drift-Wood Prose Wks. 1886 I. 376 As soon..as he undertook the popehood, the monks were sent to their beloved work. |