unpope

From un- +‎ pope.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈpəʊp/

unpope (third-person singular simple present unpopes, present participle unpoping, simple past and past participle unpoped) (transitive)

1. (obsolete) To divest of the character, office, or authority of a pope.
2. (obsolete) To deprive of a pope.
   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):

     Rome will never so far un-pope herself as to part with her pretended supremacy.

• “unpope”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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