papistic

ADJECTIVE
  1. of or relating to or supporting Romanism
    the Roman Catholic Church
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 'A cruel court that perhaps more properly called Jesuitical than Papistical. ' Gladys, the Reaper
  • And yet the deep fibres of heredity from her papistic Highland ancestors, and from old pious The Freelands
  • 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"
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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