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

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.

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At that time the nation, recent from republican ardours, was often panic-struck by papistical conspiracies, and projects of arbitrary power; and it was on this principle that he took part against the Society.

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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.

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During this period vast numbers of illuminated liturgical books were destroyed for religious or fanatical reasons, just as in our own Cromwellian times numbers of Horæ, Missals, etc., were destroyed as papistical and superstitious.

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Even Henry the Fourth of France was not unfriendly to this papistical project of placing an Italian cardinal on the English throne.

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