papistical


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Synonyms for papistical

of or relating to or supporting Romanism

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He immediately brings the tract to an abrupt conclusion, and so fails to cover the fourth point (long custom and some papistical laws) which he had announced as he began the second part of the tract.
He is equally unable to find much in the archdeaconry records about Catholics who neither attended church nor acknowledged the authority of the archdeacons' courts; just a few examples of vocal 'papistical' sentiments and evidence of secret burials in church and churchyard.
A Triumph of Christiania; Or, A Few Observations Upon the Discontinuance of 'Tracts for the Times'; with ESPECIAL Reference to the Papistical Tendencies of Some Proceedings Resulting from Their Publication.
Sievers bordered in black, bidding farewell but also rebuking the Missourians for what Loehe identified as their "papistical territorialism." (52)
"He saide that byshopis, abbatis, prioris, parsonis, canonis resident, pristis, and all, were stronge thevis, ye dukis, lordis, and all," and went on to disabuse a few papistical practices.(46) The Imperial ambassador opined that the king had ordered this harsh sounding sermon, and those which immediately followed, as a means of persuading the people away from such practices of Roman origin as the belief in purgatory.
Not long afterward, William of Orange arrived to deliver Britain from this "papistical chaos," and the prospect of a Roman Catholic England evaporated once and (maybe?) for all.
He was to recommend that this `monument to Papistical Treachery' should be displayed prominently in every home and coffee house.
Thus David Owen, writing in 1610 in a work appropriately entitled Herod and Pilate Reconciled, argued that the "politike Divines" of the day had "learned their error, of the power of States-men over Kings", thereby investing "the people and Nobles with the power over Kings, to dispose of their kingdomes", from such papistical schoolmen as John of Paris, Jacques Almain and Marsiglio of Padua.
[A]nd the phrase parent or mother country hath been jesuiticaly adopted by the king and his parasites, with a low papistical design of gaining an unfair bias on the credulous weakness of our minds.
A rumour had spread that were the Concordat to be accepted Serbian priests would have their beards shaved off and would be forced to submit to Papistical haircuts.