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Definition of papal : Of or pertaining to the pope of Rome; proceeding from the pope; ordered or pronounced by the pope; as, papal jurisdiction; a papal edict; the papal benediction.

Synonyms:

altar boy, papistical, grandiloquent, Catholic, bull, papist, portentous, overblown, emanating from the Pope or the Vatican, apostolical, confession, Catholicism, confess, episcopal, Romish, popish, apostolic, Romanistic, conclave, pontifical, pompous, papistic, Anglo-Catholic

Evangelical, ecclesiastic, ministerial, pastoral, reverend, clerical

Usage examples:

• The game was followed closely by the papal secretaries and the Jewish delegates. - "Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends", Gertrude Landa.
• Papal ukases had proved ineffective to stem the current of clerical abuses. - "German Culture Past and Present", Ernest Belfort Bax.
• I have often conversed in the Papal States with enlightened and honourable men, who rank as the heads of the middle class. - "The Roman Question", Edmond About.