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English
Etymology
From Vatican + -ian.
Pronunciation
Noun
Vaticanian (plural Vaticanians)
- (uncommon, informal) A person from Vatican City.
Translations
a person from Vatican City
Adjective
Vaticanian (not comparable)
- (uncommon, chiefly literary) Relating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.
- Synonyms: Vaticanal, Vaticanic
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.
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