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pope

/poʊp/ verb C2
  1. To act as or like a pope. (intransitive)
  2. To convert to Roman Catholicism. (colloquial, intransitive)

He/she/it popes · Past poped · Past participle poped · -ing form poping

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Verb forms

Base form
pope
He/she/it
popes
Past
poped
Past participle
poped
-ing form
poping

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Apply in person on Monday, at eleven o’clock, to Duncan Ross, at the offices of the League, 7 Pope’s Court, Fleet Street.”
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 5 · B2
Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope’s Court looked like a coster’s orange barrow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 9 · B2
However, in the morning I determined to have a look at it anyhow, so I bought a penny bottle of ink, and with a quill-pen, and seven sheets of foolscap paper, I started off for Pope’s Court.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 13 · B2
‘William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 16 · B2

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