Vaticanian

plural Vaticanians

1. informaluncommonA person from Vatican City.

1. literarynot comparableuncommonRelating to the Vatican (any sense); (figuratively) papal.

   There is not the faintest reason for attributing to M. Thiers a Vaticanian infallibility in politics.

   1875 December 31, “French Politics”, in Pall Mall Budget, volume 15, page 523

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   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.

   1843, George Castleden, Retribution, Loyal Lyrics, and Fugitive Pieces […], page 35

   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.

   1881, The Illustrated History of the World, for the English People […], volume 1, page 371

   Synonyms: Vaticanal, Vaticanic