单词 | antipope |
释义 | antipope|ˈæntɪpəʊp| Also 6–7 antipape. [orig. a. Fr. antipape, ad. med.L. antipāpa, formed on the analogy of antichrīstus. In 17th c. assimilated to pope.] A pope elected in opposition to one held to be canonically chosen; spec. applied to those who resided at Avignon during ‘the great schism of the West.’ (So called by adversaries; to those who upheld his claims he was the real pope.)
[c1236Roger of Wendover Chron. (1841) II. 194 Scisma orta est Romæ propter Gelasium antipapam.] 1579Fulke Conf. Sanders 570 Interruption..by meanes of..Schismes and Antipapes. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. vi. 31 He would forsake Pope Alexander, and ioyne with the Emperour, and Antipape. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. ii. 52 Novatianus the Roman was by faction created Antipope. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. lvi. III. 378 The antipope, Clement the third, was consecrated in the Lateran. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vi. iii. (1864) III. 454 Pope and Antipope waited their doom from the princes of the world. |

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