Papistical

Word PAPISTICAL
Character 10
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /pəˈpɪstɪk(ə)l/

Definitions and meanings of "Papistical"

What do we mean by papistical?

Being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.

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The word "papistical" in example sentences

The followers of Archbishop Laud, who supported Charles I, had reintroduced papistical ceremonies. ❋ Kermode, Frank (2009)

If the patron be precise, so must his chaplain be; if he be papistical, his clerk must be so too, or else be turned out. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It will be hard to instance where any ignorant man hath been ever seduced by papistical book in English, unless it were commended and expounded to him by some of that clergy: and indeed all such tractates, whether false or true, are as the prophecy of Isaiah was to the eunuch, not to be UNDERSTOOD ❋ Unknown (2007)

Thank God you are come home safe and sound, and without a papistical wife! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Self-scourging with rods as a penance, was to her thinking a papistical ordinance most abominable and damnatory; but the essence of the self-scourging was as comfortable to her as ever was a hair-shirt to a Roman Catholic enthusiast. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Aunt Letty, had time been allowed to her, would certainly have shown that the evil had all come from tampering with papistical abominations; and that the returning prosperity of the house of Castle ❋ Unknown (2004)

Mrs. Bolton was certainly not addicted to papistical observances, nor was she at all likely to recommend the seclusion of her daughter in a convent. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Wherefore, the assertion, if true, turns to her reproach; but it happens not to be true, or only partly so, and the phrase PARENT OR MOTHER COUNTRY hath been jesuitically adopted by the King and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Still, I certainly think the disgraceful and papistical Mr. Paul is more promising. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L.Lord Peter 03 (1988)

But everything contradicts this papistical defence. ❋ Sarah J. Richardson (N/A)

Robert Lambe at the gallowes foote made his exhortation to the people, desiryng them to feare God, and leaue the leauen of papistical abominations, and manifestly there prophesied of the ruine and plague whiche came vppon the Cardinall thereafter. ❋ John Knox (N/A)

Which liberty of priuate reading being graunted by publike proclamation, lacked not his own fruit, so that in sundry partes of Scotlande thereby were opened the eyes of the elect of God to see the truth, and abhorre the papistical abominations. ❋ John Knox (N/A)

Barker seems to have been an idle person -- he says that after travels "my former fancye of professenge nothinge partycularly was verye muche encreased" [129] -- and a papistical one, for on the accession of Mary he came home to serve the Duke of Norfolk, whose Catholic plots he betrayed, under torture, in 1571. ❋ Clare Howard (N/A)

Bishop Bale depicts that monarch as an inspired hater of papistical tyranny and an ardent lover of his country, in whose cause he suffered death by poisoning at the hands of a monk. ❋ Arnold Wynne (N/A)

The Scottish Parliament, during Queen Mary's reign, anathematised the _papistical_ practices; and from that time the annals of ❋ Howard Williams (N/A)

All these acts indicate schismatic offences which yet for the most part are the characteristics of the sabbaths in later Protestant witchcraft, excepting that the wicked apostates are there usually _papistical_ instead of ❋ Howard Williams (N/A)

Truly, the reformer blundered when he did not treat the Sunday as he treated the Pope and all Church authority, for it is papistical to a degree. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

"What papistical abominations have you been teaching the child, Kitty?" ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)

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