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papist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Papist \Pa"pist\, n. [F. papiste. See Pape, Pope.] A Roman Catholic; one who adheres to the Church of Rome and the authority of the pope; -- an offensive designation applied to Roman Catholics by their opponents.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, "adherent of the pope," from Middle French papiste, from papa "pope," from Church Latin papa (see pope).
Wiktionary
n. (context religious slur Christianity English) Used by some Protestants in referring to Roman Catholics, whose loyalties are seen to be with the papacy in Rome.
WordNet
n. a Roman Catholic who is a strong advocate of the papacy
adj. of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church" [syn: Roman, r.c., Romanist, romish, Roman Catholic, popish, papistic, papistical]
Wikipedia
Papist is a sectarian term referring to the Roman Catholic Church, its teachings, practices, or adherents. It is usually understood as a disparaging term. The word gained currency during the English Reformation, as it was used to denote a person whose loyalties were to the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church, rather than to the Church of England. Attested from 1534, papist derives (through Middle French) from Latin papa, meaning "Pope".
The term was also common in use in the Eastern Orthodox Church in 19th century.
Usage examples of "papist".
No Papist could purchase a freehold or lease for more than thirty years, or inherit from an intestate Protestant, nor from an intestate Catholic, nor dwell in Limerick or Galway, nor hold an advowson, nor buy an annuity for life.
They know nothing of your young Prince except that he is half foreigner and whole Papist, and has for his army a mob of breechless mountainers.
The commons, alarmed at the number and insolence of those religionists, desired the king, in an address, to remove by proclamation all papists and nonjurors from the city of London and parts adjacent, and put the laws in execution against them, that the wicked designs they were always hatching might be effectually disappointed.
The commons entreated the queen, in an address, to take effectual measures for suppressing the present tumults, set on foot and fomented by papists, nonjurors, and other enemies to her title and government.
Accustomed in all invectives to join the prelatical party with the Papists, the people immediately supposed this insurrection to be the result of their united counsels.
Lord North and Pitt, who took the lead in opposing the motion, argued, that the acts in question were meant to include both Papist and Protestant dissenters, and that the Corporation Act in particular was professedly made against dissenters, and not against Papists, though it eventually included both.
Amid her ladies walks the papist queen, As if her nice feet scorned our English earth.
Sir George Appleton, eager to preserve his own safe existence as a secret Papist, had proposed to send his son to a noble household known to fervently embrace the New Religion.
Scotist, Thomist, Realist, Nominalist, Papist, Calvinist, Molinist, Jansenist, are only pseudonyms.
Istvan was dressed as a papist cleric, pretending to be on the staff of the Papal Nuncio to the Texian Republic.
Goffists, Reparists, Papists, Royalists, Chartists, Communists, Fascists, Buddhists Methodists, Existentialists, or what you have.
It is hard to understand, in fact, how the shriveled Hearst management can still find enough gimps, bigots and deranged Papists to staff a rotten paper like the Herald.
The Bard hears the din of arms and news comes that the Turks, Papists, and Roundheads are advancing in three armies.
For the Papists encourage, yea, command men to break an oath with a heretic even though sworn on the sacraments.
Turks, the Papists and the murderous Roundheads in three armies, filling the whole plain of Darkness, committing every outrage and turning everything topsy-turvey.