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GREGORY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) an Italian pope distinguished for his spiritual and temporal leadership; a saint and Doctor of the Church (540?-604)
Synonyms:
Gregory; Gregory I; Gregory the Great; Saint Gregory I; St. Gregory I
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Derivation:
Gregorian (of or relating to Pope Gregory I or to the plainsong chants of the Roman Catholic Church)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The Italian pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Roman Catholic Church and the supremacy of the church over the state (1020-1085)
Synonyms:
Gregory; Gregory VII; Hildebrand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The Italian pope from 1406 to 1415 who worked to end the Great Schism and who retired to make it possible (1327-1417)
Synonyms:
Angelo Correr; Gregory; Gregory XII
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
Sense 4
Meaning:
The pope who sponsored the introduction of the modern calendar (1572-1585)
Synonyms:
Gregory; Gregory XIII; Ugo Buoncompagni
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
Derivation:
Gregorian (of or relating to Pope Gregory XIII or the calendar he introduced in 1582)
Sense 5
Meaning:
Italian pope from 1831 to 1846; conservative in politics and theology; worked to propagate Catholicism in England and the United States (1765-1846)
Synonyms:
Bartolomeo Alberto Capillari; Gregory; Gregory XVI
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
Sense 6
Meaning:
(Roman Catholic Church) a church father known for his constant fight against perceived heresies; a saint and Doctor of the Church (329-391)
Synonyms:
Gregory; Gregory Nazianzen; Gregory of Nazianzen; St. Gregory of Nazianzen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
Church Father; Father; Father of the Church ((Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom)
Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
Domain category:
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Context examples:
Inspector Gregory, to whom the case has been committed, is an extremely competent officer.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Gregory was formulating his theory, which was almost exactly what Holmes had foretold in the train.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
