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Definition of Bellarmine

1. Noun. Italian cardinal and theologian (1542-1621).

2. Noun. A stoneware drinking jug with a long neck; decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (17th century).

Definition of Bellarmine

1. n. A stoneware jug of a pattern originated in the neighborhood of Cologne, Germany, in the 16th century. It has a bearded face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

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Literary usage of Bellarmine

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1. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"bellarmine adopted the figure which had been used by Thomas Aquinas to define ... bellarmine affirmed only an indirect control on the part of the Pope over ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"bellarmine says that such prayers avail with God because of merit already acquired "Solum impétrant ex meritis ..."

3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1895)
"When bellarmine replied in the name « " EW," viii. 288. t " EW,r ix. 17, 54, 62. { " EW," xi. 8j. ..."

4. Galileo Galilei and the Roman Curia by Karl von Gebler (1879)
"Admonition by bellarmine, and assumed Absolute Prohibition to treat of the Coper- nican Doctrines. ... Testimony of bellarmine in his favour.—Conclusions. ..."

5. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"bellarmine affirmed only an indirect control on the part of the Pope over the temporal power. The Pope does not immediately legislate in temporal affairs. ..."

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