papal bull

collocation in English

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papal
adjective
uk
/ˈpeɪ.pəl/us
/ˈpeɪ.pəl/
relating to the position or authority of the Pope (= the leader of the Roman ...
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bull
noun
uk
/bʊl/us
/bʊl/
a male cow, or the male of particular animals such as the elephant or ...
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(Definition ofpapalandbullfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Note that this statement already contradicts the position of earlier historians, mentioned in the note above, that thepapalbullcaused a decline in sacred music at this time.
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I am delighted that our predecessors were not scared of thatpapalbull.
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Apapalbullwas put in his way.
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It was the firstpapalbullissued with a crusade as its subject.
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By apapalbull, he was degraded, and delivered over to the secular arm.
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The document is notable in that it is not apapalbullor decree but was treated as law by subsequent papal elections.
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Doubts were harboured about thepapalbullhad been called into question by the cardinals priests who demanded admission to the election.
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Its first usage in apapalbullis in 1418.
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He continued, for instance, to insist that nopapalbullcould be published in his dominions without his consent ("placetum regium").
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With his right foot he is stamping on thepapalbullof excommunication.
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He secured the appropriation of the parish church to the foundation and apapalbullof confirmation was issued in 1345.
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Apapalbullfrom between 1139 and 1143 may indicate the order hiring people to defend pilgrims.
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First mention of the village, which at that time was home to a castellan, comes from apapalbullof 1136.
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Eizabeth and her ministers were by no means indifferent to the potential political effects of thepapalbull.
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Within the logic of such a system, the content of visibility (cloisters, churches, hermitages, etc.) and the expression of discourse (preaching, sermons, edicts, papal bulls, etc.) emerge.
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Papal bulls, interdict, and excommunication (or the threat thereof) have been used many times to increase papal power.
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Certainly some of them spent some time working in the papal curia, which is attested by their subscriptions on the papal bulls.
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