Vaticanian
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -eɪniən
Noun edit
Vaticanian (plural Vaticanians)
- (uncommon, informal) A person from Vatican City.
Translations edit
a person from Vatican City
Adjective edit
Vaticanian (not comparable)
- (uncommon, chiefly literary) Relating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.
- 1843, George Castleden, Retribution, Loyal Lyrics, and Fugitive Pieces […], page 35:
- The pope of Rome, when all remonstrance fail’d, / As the last act of his supremacy / Commission’d Legates to assuage the feud, / Or threat the king with Vaticanian wrath.
- 1875 December 31, “French Politics”, in Pall Mall Budget, volume 15, page 523:
- There is not the faintest reason for attributing to M. Thiers a Vaticanian infallibility in politics.
- 1881, The Illustrated History of the World, for the English People […], volume 1, page 371:
- The Patres immediately appointed Q. Cincinnatus dictator. A sergeant brought him the announcement to the Vaticanian field, where he cultivated a juga of land with four yoke of oxen.
Translations edit
Vatican — see Vatican