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Definition of: Vatican
(vat′ə·kən) noun
1. The papal palace in Vatican City, Rome.
2. The papal government, as distinguished from the Quirinal, or Italian civil government.
—Council of the Vatican An ecumenical council, 1869–70, at the Vatican which declared the pope's infallibility, when speaking ex cathedra, to be a dogma of the church, [from L Vaticanus Vatican Hill in Rome]
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