Posted on 12/22/2002 1:05:12 PM PST by Scupoli
Thanks for your effort. It appears it has an older origin that that shown in the modern dictionaries. I wonder; however, when the meaning "teaching authority especially of the Roman Catholic Church" isn't of a later "coinage".
In any event, this is the end of my questions.
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