papistical
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of papistical
1530–40; probably < Middle French papistique ( see papist, -ic) + -al 1
Example Sentences
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So the three Samesbury witches got off with a stern exhortation from the judge, who scarcely seemed to relish the release of even Protestant witches delated by papistical accusers.
From Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton
Flacius showed that Major's proposition taken as it reads, can be interpreted only in a papistical sense, and that no amount of explanations is able to cure it of its ingrained falsity.
From Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by F. (Friedrich) Bente
The way that second rate amateur poses as a man of science, having authority as a sort of papistical Scotch dominie, bred a minister, but stickit, really "rouses my corruption."
From Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3 by Leonard Huxley
Rashleigh Osbaldistone is better ken'd than trusted in Glasgow, for he was here about some jacobitical papistical troking in seventeen hundred and seven, and left debt ahint him.
From Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
Even Henry the Fourth of France was not unfriendly to this papistical project of placing an Italian cardinal on the English throne.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 by Isaac Disraeli
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