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ADJECTIVE:
• pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church
• Roman Catholic.
• derogatory word for Roman Catholic
• Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.
• of or relating to or supporting Romanism

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How to use POPISH in a sentence

• The religion of the Duke of York rendered him obnoxious to a large proportion of the people, still agitated by the terrors of the Popish Plot.
• But people commonly understand by superstition, religious ceremonies, like the Popish ones, which God has not commanded.
• The Popish saint, on the other hand, asserted that so long as a fat and oppressive heresy was permitted to trample upon the people, the country could never prosper.
• There is a vile Popish plot but recently discovered.
• A few months earlier too, the four Popish lords that had been left in the Tower were released again, which I was very glad to hear of.
• If heretics were thus sacrificed by Henry the Fourth to please Popish Bishops, they were also sacrificed by Elizabeth with a view to the satisfaction of Protestant Bishops.
• In June, Charles the Elector Palatine dying without issue, the Electoral dignity went to the house of Newburgh, a most bigoted Popish family.
• Titus Oates, the principal witness to the Popish Plot, was accused of unnatural and infamous crimes.
• All this talk of a Popish plot, discovered by the Salamanca Doctor, promised a good harvest to Mr.
• As the rioters were all Romanists, a popish plot was suspected, and the Romish clergy were charged with promoting their outrages.
• All the Popish lords, headed by the earl cf Bristol, voted against it.
• The credit of the Popish plot still stood upon the oaths of a few infamous witnesses.
• The impeachment of the five Popish lords in the Tower, with that of the earl of Danby, was carried on with vigor.
• James was surprised to find that, two captains and a few Popish soldiers excepted, the whole battalion immediately embraced the latter part of the alternative.
• Christmas was in some way associated with Popish superstitions.
• Answer to the second Character of a Popish Successor.
• It was enough to suppose that a Popish Conspiracy was being carried on.
• James the Second converted this building into a Popish chapel, and mass was publicly performed here.
• But I do assert, that such an expedient was not always thought popish and dangerous by this right reverend historian.
• But, at the same time, he was an entire defender of all the Popish doctrines, even those which were the most absurd.
• Augsburg, though a Protestant city, had a Popish Bavarian garrison in it of above 5000 men, commanded by a Fugger, a great family in Bavaria.
• The landed Popish interest in England, far exceedeth that among us, even in proportion to the wealth and extent of each kingdom.
• You deserve better preferment than ever you will get in that Popish household, where your religion is in danger.
• The King was obliged to propose concessions to the popular will and to offer to agree to limitations on the authority of a popish successor.
• So, that simply considered, the Popish Plot has nothing to do with the Dissolution of Four Parliaments.
• He will tell you the reason of the Impeachment was to bring out the Popish Plot.
• The Cross, though a holy symbol, was abhorred by the Puritans, because they considered it a relic of Popish idolatry.
• Had not the Popish priest already been in the castle five or six weeks? Then why should he now require another chamber? The argument waxed hot by the bridge.

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