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- Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846)
- the Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417)
- the Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085)
- (Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
- (Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391)
- the pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585)
How To Use Gregory In A Sentence
- It occurred to Wyllard that Gregory had, at least, made no great success of farming; but that occupation, as practised on the prairie, demands a good deal more than quickness and what some call brilliancy from the man who undertakes it. Hawtrey's Deputy
- The person Carmen was speaking to was Joan, Gregory's friend, and she was in the macrobiotic restaurant where he had THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
- Gregory's procedure was little less revolutionary than that of the King, but the claim to depose might appear as only a concomitant to the power already wielded by Popes in bestowing crowns, while for Gregory it had by this time become the copingstone in the fabric of those relations between Church and State which he and his party were building up. The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304
- But oft while she taketh avisement of flight, ere she taketh her flight, an arrow flieth through her body, and therefore she faileth of her purpose, as Gregory saith. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
- A number of questions crowded to Gregory's mind, as they crossed the jettied inlet and headed down the coast. El Diablo
- Gregory suggested a relationship to lagomorphs, and Simpson united the two into a major division of Eutheria, the Glires.
- Gregory's voice had gotten softer, and was no longer completely toneless.
- Many believers accept the broad seven deadly sins or "capital vices" laid down in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great and popularised in the Middle Ages by Aquinas, and by Dante in The Inferno.
- (Read The Observer's extensive coverage here.) "Save The Hotel" activist Gregory Jones once took issue with my use of the term "fleabag" to describe the dowdy would-be landmark on Seventh Avenue. Win Trip To 'Luxurious' Hotel Pennsylvania!
- It is not difficult to see why Gregory and his supporters denounced both lay proprietorship and clerical marriage.
