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Meanings of popish in English
Of or relating to or supporting Romanism.
Synonyms
Examples for "roman"
Examples for "roman"
1
Poland; first Christianity in; Jews in; modern; Protestantism in; Roman Catholicism in
2
In Palestine, however, a group of political zealots fiercely opposed Roman rule.
3
Roman Catholicism: last rites; purgatory; Rousseau and; transubstantiation; vampires and; Voltaire and
4
Apothegms, of kings and great commanders; Roman; Laconic or Spartan; in Homer.
5
The Roman opened the trap-door in the ground in order to descend.
1
Some considered him a papist, and a danger to the English Church.
2
When the quarters of the last papist are nailed above York's gates?'
3
He pointed it out upon a map some black-frocked papist had drawn.
4
Beware, I say, of the papist Eve, the harlot and the Jezebel.
5
No, sire, the Earl of Surrey is no traitor and no papist!
1
We have been married according to the rites of the Romish Church.
2
There is not a single ordained Romish priest among the Sioux Indians.
3
He was the very man who brought the Romish Bill into Parliament.
4
Their conversation, he often secretly assured himself, was peppered with Romish propaganda.
5
There is a double-towered Romish cathedral of great size, not yet finished.
1
No Romanist will hear with patience of any national restoration of Israel.
2
He seems a nice kind of fellow; of course, a strong Romanist.
3
You are a Romanist, but I am a Huguenot, and have read.
4
The dogmas of the Romanist theology remained as they were before.
5
Nor can the faith of a Romanist be a fixed and stable quantity.
1
Red letters and embellished figures were sure marks of being papistical and diabolical.
2
This papistical monster was born at Bury, in Suffolk, and partly educated at Cambridge.
3
Let me hear no more papistical fables.
4
For the mass, slow moving but apparently irresistible, of Spanish and papistical absolutism was gradually closing over Christendom.
5
But everything contradicts this papistical defence.
1
After the rebellion the Roman Catholics in the diocese were much persecuted.
2
Roman Catholic enterprise halted in the eighteenth century and the Protestants began.
3
This was a challenge to the job security of Roman Catholic priests.
4
Bath was in tumult; a new Roman Catholic chapel there was burned.
5
Identification is especially important to Catholics in the predominantly Roman Catholic country.
Usage of popish in English
1
Erema is popish and outlandish; one scarcely knows how to pronounce it.
2
Make no mistake, I am resolved to do away with popish doctrine.
3
Well, let them be called popish, for the Pope is their master.
4
I don't approve of singing popish music, however beautiful it may be.
5
Our Puritan ancestors despised it as a popish bacchanale decent people should avoid.
6
Every one was aware of the popish plot, as Hugo Bohun called it.
7
Mr. Paine replied: Let me have none of your popish stuff.
8
A baby and a popish inquisitor would be as well matched.
9
Don't quote your popish authorities to me; I want none of your popery!
10
No doubt she called them popish images and talked of the invocation of saints.
11
All vacancies in public schools were supplied with popish teachers.
12
Pichel, a bigoted popish magistrate, apprehended 24 protestants, among whom was his daughter's husband.
13
Two of the popish bishops were put in Newgate.
14
Others-persons in authority-prelates ,curates ,andpopish priests visited him.
15
I do bear my testimony against these popish incantations.
16
We detest popish tyranny, which claims a power of giving their will for a law.
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