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Quotation dates: 1456, 1582-1590
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Pap(e)dom(e, Paip-, n. [Early ME. pape-dom, late OE. pápdóm, e.m.E. popedom (1545).] Popedom, papacy. — 1456 Hay I. 74/29.
God schewe thai had na rycht to the pape dome 1582 Melvill 130.
Sum men presses to erect an new papdom [v.r. paipdome] c1590 Fowler II. 93/23. c1590 Ib. 43/11, 136/6.
Efter this Julyis Secundis succeided in the papedome
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