papistical

American  

[pey-pis-ti-kuhl, puh-] / peɪˈpɪs tɪ kəl, pə- /

Also papistic

adjective

Disparaging.

1. of or relating to the Roman Catholic Church.

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Other Word Forms

• antipapistic adjective
• antipapistical adjective
• nonpapistic adjective
• nonpapistical adjective
• papistically adverb

Etymology

Origin of papistical

1530–40; probably < Middle French papistique ( papist, -ic ) + -al ¹

Example Sentences

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 Scott, Walter, Sir

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 Disraeli, Isaac

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 Bente, F. (Friedrich)

With this ornament of the Christian reformation were apprehended Mr. Hugh Foxe and John Devinish; the three were brought before Bonner, March 19, 1558, and the papistical articles tendered.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Cockerell therefore attributed it to St. Peter, and said that the crown showed Bishop Jocelin's papistical tendencies!

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Dearmer, Percy