1830, Alexander Pope,The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, page xxi:
This is the only piece in which the author has given a hint of his religion, by ridiculing the ceremony of burning thepope, and by mentioning with some indignation the inscription[…]
2005, Gary S. De Krey,London and the Restoration, 1659–1683,→ISBN, page182:
As York's succession was challenged by burning thepope, the Duke of Monmouth was again heralded in the city as a Protestant alternative.
1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston,The British Sportsman, Or, Nobleman, Gentleman and Farmer's Dictionary of Recreation and Amusement, page176:
Byfleet-river, wherein are very large pikes, jack, and tench ; perch, of eighteen inches long ; good carp, large flounders, bream, roach, dace, gudgeons,popes, large chub, and eels.
1862, Francis T. Buckland,Curiosities of Natural History, page230:
It resembles the perch (unfortunately for itself) in having a very long and prickly fin on its back, advantage of which is taken by the boys about Windsor, who are very fond of 'plugging apope.' This operation consists in fixing a bung in the sharp spines on the poorpope's back fin, and then throwing him into the water.
1865 January 14, Astley H. Baldwin, “Small Fry”, inOnce a Week, page105:
Popes are caught whilst gudgeon-fishing with the red worm, but they are sometimes a great nuisance to the perch-fisher, as they take the minnow.
1759, “Linnæus's Systema Naturæ”, inThe Gentleman's Magazine, page456:
Alca genus; 6 species, including the razorbill, the penguin, thepope, and others.
1773, John Hill, “Alca”, inA General Natural History, volume 3, page442:
ThePope: This is a very singular bird; it is about the size of our widgeon, or somewhat larger, but is not quite so large as the duck: the head is large and rounded; the eyes are small, and stand forward on the head, and lower down than in the generality of birds [...]
1822, George Woodley,A view of the present state of the Scilly Islands, pages264–5:
"About a hundred yards further North" says Troutbeck, "is a 'subterraneous' cavern called thePope's Hole, about fifty fathoms under the ground, into which the sea flows, so called from a sort of bird which roosts in it by night, about ninety feet high above the level of the water."!! [...] It derives its name from its being a place of shelter to some puffins,vulgo "popes".
1864, Charles Issac Elton,Norway: The Road and the Fell, page94:
The Norsemen catch great numbers of thesepopes, parrots, orlunder, as they are variously named, and train dogs to go into the holes where the puffin has its nest, lying in it with feet in the air.
1874, J. Van Voorst,Zoologist: A Monthly Journal of Natural History, page3904:
I was informed by a fisherman that there were now hundreds of gannets in the channel off Plymouth, and that he had also met with some puffins (which he called "popes")
1771, M. Bossu,Travels Through that Part of North America Formerly Called Louisiana, volume 1, page371:
ThePope is of a bright blue round the head; on the throat it is of a fine red, and on the back of a gold green colour, it sings very finely and is the size of a canary bird.
1806, Berquin-Duvallon,Travels in Louisiana and the Floridas, in the Year, 1802: Giving a Correct Picture of Those Countries, page122:
The birds [of Louisiana] are the partridge, cardinal andpope, and a species of mocking bird, called the nightingale.
1821, Édouard de Montulé,A Voyage to North America, and the West Indies in 1817, page54:
[...] some others, such as the crow, the heron, and the wild goose, which are found in Europe, I also observed ; but the most beautiful are thepope bird, whose head seems bound with the most bright azure blue, and thecardinal, being entirely of dazzling scarlet [...]
1864 August 6,The Journal of Horticulture, Cottage Gardener, and Country Gentleman, page100:
From the sketch of the bird which you have sent us, there is no doubt about its being thePope Grosbeak, which is a species of the Cardinal, but not the crested one.
1883, William Thomas Greene,The amateur's aviary of foreign birds: or, How to keep and breed foreign birds, page96:
ThePope is a native of Brazil, and the female (it is altogether incongrouous to think of a lady pontiff) exactly resembles her mate.
1895, A. A. Thom, “Dominican cardinals”, inThe Avicultural Magazine, page128:
SIR,—I should be glad to learn how to treatPope birds (Crestless Cardinals) when nesting.
1898,The Avicultural Magazine, volume 4, page87:
Besides the Bicheno's Finches in this Class, the judge disqualified, in other Classes, a pair of Magpie Mannikins and a pair ofPopes. These entries were presumably all disqualified on the ground that they were not true pairs: they are all birds in which the outward differences between the sexes (if there be any outward difference at all) are of an extremely slight and uncertain nature.
1956,Foreign birds for cage and aviary, volume 4, page20:
The wisest plan is always to keep thePope Cardinal in an aviary, and to have only one pair to each aviary.
In English usage, the term is originally and generally taken to refer to the bishop of Rome, although the Egyptian title is actually older. Within the Coptic Church, the Patriarch of Alexandria is normally styled Pope ~; within the Eastern Orthodox Church, their distinct Patriarch of Alexandria is formally titled "Pope of Alexandria", but usually referred to as such only in the liturgy and official documents.
I'm not going to ‘Pope’ until after the war (if I'm alive).
1990 October 7,Sunday Telegraph, 26/5
A prominentAnglican priest had, to use the term generally employed on these occasions, ‘Poped’—that is, left theChurch of England in order to become a Roman Catholic.
1855, C. W. Johnson,Farmer's & Planter's Encycl. Rural Affairs, published1157, section 1:
When made withBurgundy orBordeaux, the mixture was calledBishop; when with oldRhenish, its name wasCardinal; and when withTokay, it was dignified with the title ofPope.
1781, S. Peters,Gen. Hist. Connecticut, section 257:
The Whipperwill has so named itself by its nocturnal songs. It is also called thepope, by reason of its darting with great swiftness, from the clouds almost to the ground, and bawling outPope!
