Pope, Alexander

Cultural  

1. An eighteenth-century English poet known for his satiric wit and insistence on the values of classicism in literature: balance, symmetry, and restraint. His best-known poems are “The Rape of the Lock,” “An Essay on Criticism,” and “An Essay on Man.”

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Example Sentences

Anyway, this was the generalized approach put forward by the 13th-century Pope Alexander IV. In his 1258 papal bull Quod super nonnullis, he ordered inquisitors to generally avoid investigating sorcery unless what was happening “clearly savoured of manifest heresy.”

From Slate

This well-pedigreed historical Showtime drama — created by the Oscar-winning writer and director Neil Jordan and starring Jeremy Irons as Pope Alexander VI — had the misfortune of premiering in April 2011, the same month HBO debuted “Game of Thrones.”

From New York Times

Rivers said that to confront Christian nationalism honestly, churches and other houses of worship need to focus on a papal bull issued by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 known as the Doctrine of Discovery.

From Washington Post

As Pope Alexander III wrote in his instructions to a bishop towards the close of the 1160s, writings that would subsequently form the standard legal doctrine on the subject, a single mother living in the county of Flanders had taken her newborn son to the man she claimed was the father.

From Slate

But no sooner was he in Milan than he did the opposite, providing assistance to Pope Alexander so that he could occupy the Romagna.

From Literature