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Vat·i·can

(văt′ĭ-kən)

1. The official residence of the pope in Vatican City.

2. The papal government; the papacy.

[Latin Vaticānus (mōns), the Vatican (Hill).]

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Vatican

(ˈvætɪkən)

1. (Roman Catholic Church)

a. the palace of the popes in Rome and their principal residence there since 1377, which includes administrative offices, a library, museum, etc, and is attached to the basilica of St Peter's

b. (as modifier): the Vatican Council.

2. (Roman Catholic Church)

a. the authority of the Pope and the papal curia

b. (as modifier): a Vatican edict.

[C16: from Latin Vāticānus mons Vatican hill, on the western bank of the Tiber, of Etruscan origin]

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Vat•i•can

(ˈvæt ɪ kən)

n.

1. Also called Vat′ican Pal′ace. the chief residence of the popes in Vatican City.

2. the authority and government of the pope.

[1545–55; < Latin vātīcānus (mōns) Vatican (hill)]

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Noun

Vatican - the residence of the Catholic Pope in the Vatican City

Vatican Palace

Citta del Vaticano, Vatican City - the capital of the State of the Vatican City

Translations

الفاتِيكان

Vatikán

Vatikanet

Vatikaani

Vatikan

バチカン

바티칸 궁전

Vatikanen

Tòa thánh Vatican

梵蒂冈

Vatican

[ˈvætɪkən]

A. N the Vatican → el Vaticano

B. ADJ → vaticano, del Vaticano
Vatican City N → Ciudad f del Vaticano

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Vatican

[ˈvætɪkən] n
the Vatican → le VaticanVatican City n → cité f du VaticanVAT man n (British) the VAT man inspecteur des impôts chargé du contrôle de la TVAVAT return n → formulaire m de déclaration de la TVA

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Vatican

n → Vatikan m; the Vatican Council → das Vatikanische Konzil; Vatican roulette (hum inf) → Knaus-Ogino(-Methode) f

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Vatican

[ˈvætɪkən] n the Vatican → il Vaticano

Vatican

→ الفاتِيكان Vatikán Vatikanet Vatikan Βατικανό Vaticano Vatikaani Vatican Vatikan Vaticano バチカン 바티칸 궁전 Vaticaan Vatikanet Watykan Vaticano Ватикан Vatikanen สำนักวาติกันที่เป็นที่ประทับขององค์สันตะปาปาในกรุงโรม Vatikan Tòa thánh Vatican 梵蒂冈

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A little less than a hundred years ago, and a little more than six hundred years after the death, the confession of Pervaise was discovered in the secret archives of the Vatican. It is perhaps well to tell a little something about this obscure document, which, in the main, is of interest to the historian only.

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in the Library of the Vatican, of forty fables attributed to Aphthonius, and of forty-three from Babrias.

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For it is strange to see, now in Europe, such huge buildings as the Vatican and Escurial and some others be, and yet scarce a very fair room in them.

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25 Frimaire; year XIII; Coronation of the Emperor Napoleon by his Holiness, Pius VII.' On the next morning, the inhabitants of Rome saw the same balloon soaring above the Vatican, whence it crossed the Campagna, and finally fluttered down into the lake of Bracciano.

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The decorations on the walls and ceiling were skilfully copied from the exquisitely graceful designs of Raphael in the Vatican. The massive wardrobe possessed compartments of unusual size, in which double the number of dresses that Agnes possessed might have been conveniently hung at full length.

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"Ah, yes," said the other, "of course, I have no doubt that in a hundred years the Vatican will be denying that it ever opposed Socialism, just as at present it denies that it ever tortured Galileo."

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I go- to-morrow we meet, Do we not?- at the Vatican.

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Casaubon was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican.

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Everybody was walking about St Peter's and the Vatican on somebody else's cork legs, and straining every visible object through somebody else's sieve.

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One is in the possession of the President of Peru; one is locked up in the Vatican; and one is on My table.

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On his return from the Vatican, Franz carefully avoided the Corso; he brought away with him a treasure of pious thoughts, to which the mad gayety of the maskers would have been profanation.

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I had observed some newspaper comment at the time, but I was exceedingly preoccupied by that little affair of the Vatican cameos, and in my anxiety to oblige the Pope I lost touch with several interesting English cases.