Popish
[pәupiʃ]
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.
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Examples
- Had I gone to him, he would have shown me all that was tender, and comforting, and gentle, in the honest Popish superstition. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Sprat said that they openly professed, not to lay the foundation of an English, Scotch, Irish, Popish or Protestan t philosophy, but a philosophy of mankind. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- They would have been safer, it seems, among popish Spaniards, even if enemies, and delivered into their hands by a tempest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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