Crossword clues for vatican
vatican
- Inspired by a new religious centre
- Church seat
- Papal place
- World's smallest independent state, with "the"
- Word with City or Council
- Swiss Guard's station, with "the"
- Site of the Borgia Apartments
- Rome surrounds it
- Pope's place, with "The"
- Pauline Chapel locale
- Papal home
- Palace of the popes in Rome
- "Angels & Demons" locale
- Religious center
- Belvedere Park locale, with "the"
- Swiss Guards' setting
- Current home of 63-Across
- The residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City
- Sistine Chapel site, with "the"
- Where to see the Swiss Guard
- Milieu of the Swiss Guard
- Vessel I’m able to show palace in Rome
- See the author loading two containers
- Religious body, one separating two vessels
- Putting bible back, I can't suspect authority of church
- Papal authority
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vatican \Vat"i*can\, n. [L. Vaticanus, mons, or collis, Vaticanus, the Vatican hill, in Rome, on the western bank of the Tiber: cf. F. Vatican, It. Vaticano.] 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.
Note: The word is often used to indicate the papal authority.
Thunders of the Vatican, the anathemas, or denunciations, of the pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, from Latin mons Vaticanus, Roman hill on which Papal palace stands. Said to be an Etruscan loan-word, not related to vates "sooth-sayer."
Wikipedia
Vatican may refer to:
- The Holy See, the central governing body of the Catholic Church and sovereign entity recognized by international law, consisting of the Pope and the Roman Curia.
- A metonym for the Catholic Church, particularly when attributing doctrine
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Roman Curia, the administrative apparatus of the Holy See
- Vatican Library, of the Roman Curia
- Vatican Secret Archives, which were separated from the Vatican Library in the 17th century
- Vatican Publishing House, the publisher of official documents of the Holy See, separated from the Vatican Library in 1926
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Vatican City, the city-state ruled by the Pope, in existence since 1929, on the Vatican Hill in Rome, and which includes St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel and the Vatican Museums
- Vatican Hill, a hill in Rome, after which the Vatican is named, on the opposite side of the Tiber from the traditional seven hills of Rome
- Apostolic Palace, the official residence of the Pope on the Vatican Hill (sometimes referred to as the Vatican Palace)
- St. Peter's Basilica, also known as the Vatican Basilica, the principal church on the Vatican Hill
- Vatican Museums, which contain cultural wealth of the Vatican
- Vatican watcher, a journalist who reports news concerning the Holy See and the Roman Curia
- Vatican, Louisiana, a town in the United States
- The Vatican (mixtape), a mixtape by Natas
- Vatican Commandos, a hardcore punk band
Usage examples of "vatican".
He was furious when the Vatican Council issued a document called Nostra Aetate, calling for mutual understanding between Muslims and Christians.
The Vatican was the first Court which recognised the erection of Tuscany into the Kingdom of Etruria, and the formation of the Helvetic, Cisalpine, and Batavian Republics.
The camerlengo would confirm his death in the presence of the master of papal liturgical celebrations and a worried knot of other high-ranking Vatican officials.
Anna from her vows, and gave them the nuptial blessing at the instance of Don Juan Casanova, majordomo of the Vatican, and uncle of Don Jacob.
The Clockmaker, though he spoke no Italian, assumed them to be Vatican bureaucrats.
A tourist thrust a disposable camera toward him and pleaded, in some indecipherable Slavic tongue, for the Clockmaker to take his photograph in front of the Vatican.
Roman bricks was the district between the viae Triumphalis, Cornelia, and the two Aureliae, now called the Monti della Creta, which includes the southern slopes of the Vatican ridge and the northern of the Janiculum.
Young priests are leaving, some to get married, women are demanding to be allowed into the priesthood, the Vatican itself is critized for hoarding its vast wealth and not using it to feed the starving, to help the underprivileged, criticized for not condemning the violence in Northern Ireland more strongly, openly mocked its outdated views on birth control, divorce, and plenty of other topics which seem to have no relevance to today s society.
As the Vatican closed in, the Priory smuggled their documents from a Paris preceptory by night onto Templar ships in La Rochelle.
The Vatican is made up of deeply pious men who truly believe these contrary documents could only be false testimony.
Rabid Gallophobe, he never pardoned his old general the campaign of Dijon any more than he forgave Victor Emmanuel for having left the Vatican to Pius IX.
Pius was well known within the Vatican to have lived beyond his normal span due to the ministrations of the Swiss gerontologist Dr.
Vatican to have lived beyond his normal span due to the ministrations of the Swiss gerontologist Dr.
In the midst of his second sermon against vice in Florence, Savonarola suddenly cried out against the Medici, blamed Lorenzo for the evil of the city, predicted the downfall of the ruling family and, as a climax, the Pope in the Vatican.
EXISTS only as an abstraction exerting influence in the real world, a force acting upon imagination, a psychosocial web of hidden WILLS, a summation of biological, genetic, electromagnetic, microbiotic, social, pedagogic, psychological, karmic, cosmic, mythic, internal and external FORCES, a living IDEA, a socially-engineered MOON-CHILD, lurking around corners, creeping out of shadows, spilling from dreams, a macro-cabal whose roster includes not only the obvious -- Richard Nixon, the Vatican, ITT -- but also others preferring to remain silent and unseen.