How To Use Papist In A Sentence

Croi from time immemorial had been renowned for its devout and strict observance of papistic rites and ceremonies; the Counts of Nassau had gone over to the new sect -- sufficient reasons why Philip of Croi, Duke of Arschot, should prefer a party which placed him the most decidedly in opposition to the Prince of Orange. History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Volume 02
It is his fault, not mine, that he writes "Thus beneath the bearded Jesus is the flesh of Christina," and "It was a lesson in pessimism to complement her memory of the mouse," and "Eventually Maria extricated herself from papistic Longleat," plus a thousand more sentences of the kind. The Rossettis
A comprehensive national Church embracing all but a small number of sectaries and papists would have been a very different matter from a restricted religious establishment, co-existing with large numbers of nonconformists.
Having no genuine party, the Whigs seek for succour from the Irish papists; Lord John Russell, however, is only imitating Pym under the same circumstances. Sketches
There is a touch of pathos in the picture of the prim, methodistical English lady, who hated the dirt and slovenliness of her husband's people, was shocked at their jovial ways and free talk, looked upon all Papists as connections of Antichrist, and hoped for the salvation of mankind through the form of religion patronised by Lady Huntington. Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

Now, my lord, as a true Scottish man, and educated at the Mareschal – College of Aberdeen, I was bound to uphold the mass to be an act of blinded papistry and utter idolatry, whilk I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence. A Legend of Montrose
From about the year 1580, besides the term papist, employed with opprobrious intent, the followers of the old religion were often called Romish or Roman Catholics. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
The answer had come, by way of George Wishart: it was Scotland who had abandoned God, led astray by the "puddle of papistry. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
Who can tell which crewmate may be a crypto-Papist Spanish spy? Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway
This movie was made by a devoted Roman Catholic with the advice of papist theologians, and is endorsed by Pope John Paul II.
To close this discourse, I shall only from it obviate a putid calumny cast by the Papists, Quakers, and others of the same confederacy, against the grace of God, upon the doctrine of the free justification of a sinner, through the imputation of the righteousness of Christ: for with a shameless impudence they clamour on all by whom it is asserted, as those who maintain salvation to be attainable through a mere external imputation of righteousness; whilst those so saved are Pneumatologia
Though the papists will have it that he was now dead; and, from Paul's praying for him that he might find mercy, they conclude the warrantableness of praying for the dead; but who told them that Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Thus, they would criticise the Queen's feminine irresolution, female fickleness and womanly compassion towards papists and traitors.
Perhaps that could be called a papist bull, though hardly with impunity. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1
Here the religious divisions that plagued English society, between churchmen, Dissenters, and papists, were presented in a peculiarly acute form.
Henkel to the rank of catechist, on the false charge that he had preached transubstantiation and other papistic heresies and thereby given offense to the "Reformed brethren. American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod
To a papist, Luther thought, the crucifix was indeed an idol, something to be venerated and bowed down to.
But now -- now he will be taught to lie; and to hate what is good; and be brought up a Papist; and bidden to forget his mother -- his _mother_! ' Penshurst Castle In the Days of Sir Philip Sidney
Now, my lord, as a true Scottish man, and educated at the Mareschal – College of Aberdeen, I was bound to uphold the mass to be an act of blinded papistry and utter idolatry, whilk I was altogether unwilling to homologate by my presence. A Legend of Montrose
Perhaps someone whom this 'papist' judge had loved very much had been cruelly put to death, and perhaps that was the reason he suggested this savage punishment for Quaker Richard. A Book of Quaker Saints
When those bloody wars in France for matters of religion (saith [6619] Richard Dinoth) were so violently pursued between Huguenots and Papists, there was a company of good fellows laughed them all to scorn, for being such superstitious fools, to lose their wives and fortunes, accounting faith, religion, immortality of the soul, mere fopperies and illusions. Anatomy of Melancholy
-- "Weill," sayis he, "my heart is full and burdened, and I will be glaid to haif ane occasioun to disburdein it, and speik all my mynd plainely to thame for the dishonouring of Chryst, and wraik of sua many soulis for their doeings; be the beiring doun the sinceritie and fridom of the Gospel, stoping that healthsome breath of Godis mouth, and maintaining of the Papistis 'corruptiounes and superstitiounes. Andrew Melville Famous Scots Series
Strict Calvinist critics accused him of being a Socinian, a Pelagian, and a papist.
The spirit of a soldier of the Truth entered into me; weary as I was, I rushed from the dusky corner where I had been hidden in the twilight, ran to the altar, and held up my hand with my hymn-book as I began to repeat an address that had often silenced the papistic mummers in England. In the Wrong Paradise
And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious Moretons, drew him constantly to this spot at times when no one would be about. Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
In the report of that case we find that the plaintiff's counsel informed the court that Mr. Justice Buller had recently tried on circuit a case of the King v. Sparkes: that the prisoner, in that case, was a "papist" and that it came out at the trial that he had made a confession of his crime (a capital one) to a Protestant clergyman: that this confession was received in evidence by the judge: and that the prisoner was convicted and executed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
Though I doubt not (how much soever knaves may abuse fools with words for a time) but there will come a day, in which the most active Papists will be found under the Puritan mask; in which it will appear, that the conventicle has been the Jesuits safest kennel, and the Papists themselves, as well as the fanatics, have been managers of all those monstrous outcries against popery, to the ruin of those Protestants whom they most hate, and whom alone they fear. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.
For Ziska, stout and furious, blind of one eye and at last of both, a kind of human rhinoceros driven mad, had risen out of the ashes of murdered Huss, and other bad papistic doings, in the interim; and was tearing up the world at a huge rate. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07
'Don't yo becall Papists!' cried David, fiercely, facing round upon him. The History of David Grieve
The revolution in papistry not happening in 1689, as Peter A Philosophical Dictionary
Most Catholic sacramentals, such as relics, agnus deis and medals, were proscribed as being "papist superstitions. Death of Elizabeth I
She called the rector a Papist; hinted that the doctor's wife was no better than she should be; announced that Morley owed money to his tradesmen, that he had squandered his wife's fortune; and finally wound up by saying that he would spend Daisy Kent's money when he got it. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story
In November of that year the newly appointed Anglican Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, and his suffragan bishops issued a statement declaring that the ‘religion of papists is superstitious and idolatrous erroneous and heretical.’
She is the only child in a family that has been papist since the days of Saint Patrick.
Looking at the strange inscriptions in an unfamiliar tongue, he was singularly touched with the few cheap memorials lying upon the graves -- like childish toys -- and for the moment overlooked the papistic emblems that accompanied them. Selected Stories of Bret Harte
To be a "papist" or "hear Mass" -- which were construed as the same thing -- was punishable by death as high treason. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
Buddhism corrupted by Brahmic theocracy -- as Christianity by Mosaic rites, by papistic theology and sectarian piety -- has come to us as a morbid asceticism or worse, delighting in self-inflicted individual tortures and revelling in unthinkable contradictions. Buchanan's Journal of Man, December 1887 Volume 1, Number 11
He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather.
Fourthly, that it is no less absurd to say, as the Papists do, that our satisfaction is required as a condition, without which Christ's satisfaction is not appliable unto us, than to say, Peter hath paid the debt of John, and he to whom it was due accepteth of the same payment, conditionally if he pay it himself also. The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In his will, Knox addressed the "Papists and the unthankful world," telling them that "because they will not admit me for an admonisher, I give them over to the judgement of Him who knows the hearts of all. Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles
Then he dreamed that he turned Papist, of all his dreams the only one, we suspect, which came through the gate of horn.
But she recommended the Parliament to conciliatory measures; to avoid extremes; to drop offensive epithets, like "papist" and "heretic;" to go as far as the wants of the nation required, and no farther. Beacon Lights of History
It used to be a standard ploy — not just “liberal,” but “Whig” (originally “cut-throat cattle rustler from the wild Scottish borders”) and “Tory” (orig. “illiterate Papist peasant from the remotest bogs of Ireland”). Own It!
Episcopalians and Methodists, and fools and fiddlers, and Papists and pie-bakers, and doctors and drugsters; by the shop-folk, that sell trash and trumpery at three prices — and so up got the bonny new Well, and down fell the honest auld town of Saint Ronan’s, where blithe decent folk had been heartsome eneugh for mony a day before ony o’ them were born, or ony sic vapouring fancies kittled in their cracked brains.” Saint Ronan's Well
Their preachers were both papists and Puritans, Jacobites and republicans; they ravished wives or influenced them to give up all fleshly pleasures; they coveted other men's goods or denied them the use of worldly possessions.
But, by asserting the Scripture to be the canon of oar faith, I have unavoidably created to myself two sorts of enemies: the Papists indeed, more directly, because they have kept the Scriptures from us what they could; and have reserved to themselves a right of interpreting what they have delivered under the pretence of infallibility: and the Fanatics more collaterally, because they have assumed what amounts to an infallibility, in the private spirit; and have detorted those texts of The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes
34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets. Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation
But, in spite of the labours of the past 50 years by Evangelicals, Mexico is still a country ‘more papist than the pope’.
Past historians evaluated him either as a secret papist who corrupted the church or as the martyr of true Anglicanism.
The, Church of England, it said, is like Christ crucified between two thieves, Papists on one side and Nonconformist sectarians on the other.
Priests and nuns were known to kidnap Baptists and force them to become papists.
Whereas the first Lord was a Church Papist, externally compliant with the law of conformity, Sir William II was twice presented for Catholic recusancy.
He's a Catholic convert, and rather oppressively more papist than the Pope.
He is baited and mocked in South Boston, Little Italy, and wherever papist brutes foregather.
Take _Sheemus a Cocka_ to h-- l, sir," said Phil, "we don't want him -- he's a kind of papist; take him away to h-- l out of this. Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two
And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious The Freelands
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I asked her if she really thought dangerous papist ideas were kneaded in with the bread, but she would not listen to my mild "persiflage," and went away rather anxious about my spiritual welfare. Chateau and Country Life in France
To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much. English Travellers of the Renaissance
Ex hoc nunc et usque in seculum," replied Blood, the occasional papist, with lowered eyes. Captain Blood
Papist," but as far as I can tell, Pise is wrong: "Romanist" appears to be a familiar term of opprobrium in English polemic by the late seventeenth century. Religion
'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
He dies, vowing vengeance upon Rome, and sending messages to Queen Elizabeth, "whom God hath bless'd for hating papistry. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
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. John Caldigate
Papists hold, or have any perfection in this life, much less supererogate: when we have all done, we are unprofitable servants. Anatomy of Melancholy
These catholic or papist communities survived and developed by resistance to legal proscription by penal laws, eventually lifted in the late 18th and early 19th cents.
Abune Hangin 'Shaw, in the bield o' the Black Hill, there's a bit enclosed grund wi 'an iron yett; and it seems, in the auld days, that was the kirkyaird o' Ba'weary, and consecrated by the Papists before the blessed licht shone upon the kingdom. Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) Ghost Stories
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. John Caldigate
The traditions of the latter three in divine service were largely those that came to American shores: plain people worshipping plainly who would have no truck with papist mummery.
a grandee is a more harmless animal by far than an Irish Papist. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
“Tillyvally for your papistry!” was answered from without; The Abbot
Most Catholic sacramentals, such as relics, agnus deis and medals, were proscribed as being "papist superstitions. Death of Elizabeth I
The play deals, in effect, with prejudicial notions about papist belief, and Calvinist critiques of that belief system, mediated and popularised into commonly held views that would find natural assent from a contemporary audience.
There is a touch of pathos in the picture of the prim, methodistical English lady, who hated the dirt and slovenliness of her husband's people, was shocked at their jovial ways and free talk, looked upon all Papists as connections of Antichrist, and hoped for the salvation of mankind through the form of religion patronised by Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
The reign of George the First, was a continual effort of the constitutional spirit against the remnants of papistry and tyranny, which still adhered to the government of England. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847
Art thou a Christian child- ha?Dost know thy catechism?Or art thou one of those naughty elfs or fairies, whom we thought to have left behind us, with other relics of Papistry, in merry old England?
More shame that government send dragoons out after-a few honest fellows that bring the old women of England a drop of brandy, and let these ragamuffins smuggle in as much papistry and — Hark! — was that a whistle? Redgauntlet
Speke Hall, LiverpoolBuilt in stages throughout the 16th century, this timber-framed manor house was the home of the Catholic Norris family, and is filled with priest holes, eavesdrops and everything the secret papist needs.2. Five of the best Elizabethan merchant houses
This preference of hers was so strongly associated with Catholicism that some of her subjects would later question the sincerity of Elizabeth's profession of the Protestant faith because of her fondness for sumptuous "papist" altar cloths. 163 From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558
Wherfore seinge the papistes do bothe thincke and teache otherwise in this matier then the holie scripture dothe teache/and do defend their errour with an obstinate mynde they are heretikes. A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the sam
But here is what neither Papist nor Puritan, latitudinarian nor precisian, ever boggles or makes mouths at. Kenilworth
The good folks, since they have read the novels, have become Jacobites; and, because all the Jacobs were Papists, the good folks must become Papists also, or, at least, papistically inclined. The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
God; and that the _Papists_ that came after them, have out done them all for Slaughters, upon those that have been _accounted as the Sheep for the Slaughters_. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
Pym delivered a hard-line speech denouncing the king's trade embargo and playing the religion card: the king's armies, he alleged, were riddled with papists.
A certain number of "papist" priests took the oath, and the "papist" religion was thus established here and there, though it continued to be disturbed by the incessant arbitrary acts of interference on the part of the administrative staff of the Directory, who by individual warrants deported priests charged with inciting to disturbance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI

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