How To Use Popish In A Sentence
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It was to revise and redefine the national creed, after its long lapse into so-called Arminianism and semi-popish error, and to advise also as to the new system of church government and the new forms of worship that should come in place of rejected episcopacy and the condemned liturgy.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11
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Since the calender was a popish imposition , we will back to the Julian calender
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Year of Our Lord”
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Lord Coke tells us, in the passage quoted at p. 364., that this was called the corporal oath, because the witness "toucheth with his hand some part of the Holy Scripture;" but the better opinion seems to be, that it was so called from the ancient custom of laying the hands upon the _corporale_, or cloth which covered the sacred elements, by which the most solemn oath was taken in Popish times.
Notes and Queries, Number 211, November 12, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Those accusing him in his trial, however, proved themselves comparatively ignorant of popish doctrine and appeared foolish against Latimer's defence.
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I have run after a thief with a poker: ay, and I have handled a Popish catchpoll, in Queen _Mary's_ days, that he never came near my house no more.
Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
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Falsely interpreting the proposition as necessarily implying, not merely moral obligation, but also compulsion and coercion, they rejected it as unevangelical and semipopish.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
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I couldna say that I had there great pleasure, for the preacher was very cauldrife, and read every word, and then there was such a beggary of popish prelacy, that it was compassionate to a Christian to see.
The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family
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This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
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For though a Christian ought not to demaunde baptisme in the popishe churche/yet the baptisme which they haue hetherto vsed we acknowledge it to be such that it is not to be reiterated of them whõ they do baptise.
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
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He was the abolisher of Popish traditions about Priests marriages: his owne marriage being solemnized at Schalholt.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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This kept alive the paranoia about popish plots that had been so damaging in the 1640s.
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He was suspected of recusancy, and in 1569 and 1570 was charged with possessing popish and dangerous writings; he was examined before the ecclesiastical commission, but escaped without punishment.
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His visit to Scotland made matters worse; Scotchmen were horrified to see at the coronation service such "popish rags" as "white rochets and white sleeves and copes of gold having blue silk to their foot" worn by the presiding bishops which "bred great fear of inbringing of popery
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
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The last Scottish coronation, that of Charles II in 1651, was a hasty business in the midst of adversity: Charles was required to swear to the covenant, and anointing was dropped as a superstitious and popish practice.
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But then I will put on nane of their Popish disguises — me that has lived in North Leith, baith wife and lass, for
Saint Ronan's Well
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Being sent for education to any Popish school or college abroad, upon conviction, incurs (if the party sent has any estate of inheritance) a kind of unalterable and perpetual outlawry.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12)
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These cathedral churches have in like manner other dignities and canonries still remaining unto them, as heretofore under the popish regiment.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
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Elizabeth Cooper, wife of a pewterer, of St. Andrews, Norwich, had recanted; but, tortured for what she had done by the worm which dieth not, she shortly after voluntarily entered her parish church during the time of the popish service, and standing up, audibly proclaimed that she revoked her former recantation, and cautioned the people to avoid her unworthy example.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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In 1570 was published "The Popish Kingdome, or, Reigne of Antichrist, written in Latin Verse by Thomas Naogeorgus (Kirchmayer) and englished by Barnabe Googe," and in it we have some curious Christmas customs and folk-lore.
A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
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Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion.
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Religious bigots have branded her an example of popish excess - a whore and perhaps a murderess.
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The Covenanters, for instance, fought to rid Scotland of what they feared were popish influences.
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The apostle's anointing was in order to heal the disease; the popish anointing is for the expulsion of the relics of sin, and to enable the soul (as they pretend) the better to combat with the powers of the air.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
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Controversy surrounded the early years of the priest's incumbency due to accusations from local newspapers of increased levels of ‘Popish and Pagan mummeries’ within St Michael's services.
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“And meet time it was, when yon usher, vinegar-faced rogue that he is, began to inquire what Popish trangam you were wearing. —
The Abbot
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Elizabeth Agnus Deis are frequently mentioned among other "popish trumperies" the importation of which into England was rigorously forbidden.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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‘If he has,’ said I, ‘he has done it unwittingly; I never heard before that he was a favourer of the popish delusion.’
Lavengro
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Elizabeth, he soon learnt from the gossip of the household, was as determined to put down the Puritan "prophesyings" as the popish services; for both alike tended to injure the peace she was resolved to maintain.
By What Authority?
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Sure, there's a pretty popish synth line that could be easily translated into a mid-60's glock part, and there're handclaps, but the damn verse is one bar of four, one bar of three, one bar of four and repeat.
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Indulgence, the strict Covenanters were reduced to what they style themselves in the "Informatory Vindication," a "wasted, suffering, anti-popish, anti-prelatic, anti-erastian, anti-sectarian remnant.
The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
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Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
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Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
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He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
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This outlandish-seeming conspiracy theory, Bellany argues, was plausible to many contemporaries, including the prosecutor Sir Edward Coke, because it tapped into deeply felt pre-existing fears about the likelihood of popish plots.
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Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
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For the time being, however, he read a statement from Sellon which threw some light on the stories of all three girls: the worship and religious customs of the house, she argued, were certainly not popish.
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Since the calender was a popish imposition, we will back to the Julian calender
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Year of Our Lord”
