• disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope
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  • The official residence of the pope in Vatican City, The palace of the Popes, a mass of buildings of vast extent, built upon the Vatican hill, immediately to the north of the basilica of St. Peter at Rome, the anathemas, or denunciations, of the pope, proper The official residence of the Pope within Vatican City, The papal government; the papacy, Roman Catholicism, adjective_ Relating to the Vatican City state
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  • A country of Europe and Asia, a soft kind of leather, made originally in Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being impregnated with an oil obtained from birch bark. It is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects, a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
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  • A kind of cosmetic, A common baptismal name for a man. The name of one of the apostles, disciple of Jesus and leader of the Apostles; regarded by Catholics as the vicar of Christ on earth and first Pope, verb_ To dwindle; to trail off; to diminish to nothing, intransitive verb_ Slang, U.S. To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out
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