There was a papal bull, for instance, said to forbid dissection.
(p. 021)What did the Saxon monk do, when the papal bull was published?
But in my land we have discovered a readier way than any papal bull.
The papal bull, how severe soever it may be, acknowledges this.
The decree of the saint is as much esteemed as is a papal bull.
That is the oldest of Scotch universities, and was founded by a papal bull.
He was appointed by a papal bull, and consecrated August 18, 1426.
For this he was denounced in a papal bull and his writings were condemned to be burned.
In reply Luther burned the papal bull publicly at Wittemberg.
The news, however, had in some form reached Rome in season to be the subject of a papal bull on May 3d.
a letter or announcement from the Pope to the Catholic world
so called because a lead bulla or seal was attached to the Pope's edict by a cord