Meanings of papistical in English

Red letters and embellished figures were sure marks of being papistical and diabolical.

This papistical monster was born at Bury, in Suffolk, and partly educated at Cambridge.

Let me hear no more papistical fables.

For the mass, slow moving but apparently irresistible, of Spanish and papistical absolutism was gradually closing over Christendom.

But everything contradicts this papistical defence.

Notwithstanding the papistical errors which abound in the volume, his general conception of the subject is in some particulars admirable.

However, that I surrendered your keeping to a papistical infidel is my own blame, and I do not reproach you.

Verily the papistical bride had brought a greater trouble to that house than even Lady Warner's prejudiced mind had anticipated.

The ragged artillerymen, battering the walls of papistical Louisbourg, flattered themselves with the notion that they were champions of gospel truth.

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

Henry with the Scar, Duke of Guise, the well-known chief of the house of Lorraine, was the chief of the extreme papistical party.

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.

She insists upon her reverence for the priestly (papistical) blessing, while she confides her determination to have it dispensed with in Camilla's case.

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.

Behold the evil which troubles the conscience of the Papistical League.

My estates go to an outlandish Papistical set of mongrel brats!