vaticalt (vatikal)

[ as vatic. Vatical predictions. Bp . Hall , Christ's Proce ion to the Temple. Vatican (vat'i-kan), n. [F. Vatican = Sp. Pg. It. Vatic a no, the reckoning of the Church of Rome, which met in the Vatican December 8th, 1869, and declared belief in the infallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra to be a dogma of the church. It was closed October 20th, 1870, owing to the occupation of Rome by the civil power of Italy. See infallibility, and Old Catholic (under catholic ). -Vatican Fragments, parts of a compendium of law taken from the writings of jurisconsults and from several imperial constitutions. They were discovered by the librarian of the Vatican, and first published in Rome in 1823.