pap2 (pap)

[ mete: see papmeat ) = D. pap = G. pappe, pap, paste, = Dan. pap = Sw. papp, pasteboard; ef. OF. papa = Sp. papa =It. pappa, pap; also OF. pap in, pappin, m., papine, f., pap; Many doctrines have grown to be the ordinary diet and food of our spirits, and have place in the pap of catechisms. Donne , Letters, xvii. Cowper , Conversation, 1. 485. Oh, folly worthy of the nurse's lap! Give it the breast, or stop its mouth with pap . As in the Primitiue Church the yonger Bishop called the elder Papa . Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 142. Although he [the Roman pontiff] had not, as yet, a umed the distinctive insignia of his office-the triple crown and the upright staff surmounted by the cro -he more and more discouraged the application of the name of papa (pope) to any but himself. Encyc . Brit ., XIX. 495. papa3 (pā'pä), n . [NL.; cf. papio , papion , and baboon .] 1. A baboon; a papio or papion.2. The specific name of the king-vulture of tropical America, Sarcorhamphus or Gypagus papa . See cut under king - vulture .-3. A name, both generic and specific, of a coccothraustine bird of the Bonin Islands, Coccothraustes papa or ferrirostris , or Papa ferrirostris. Reichen bach ; Kittilitz . papable (pā'pa-bl), a. [ papable = It. pа pabile , * papabilis (in deriv. papabilita (t-) s , papal power), papa , pope: see papal , popel.j Capable of being made a pope; eligible to the papacy. [Rare.] By the death of the other two the conclave hath received little alteration; though Mondovio were papable , and a great sog get to in the list of the foresters. Sir H. Wotton, Reliquiæ, p. 707.