popish in English

adjective
1
Roman Catholic.
For the time being, however, he read a statement from Sellon which threw some light on the stories of all three girls: the worship and religious customs of the house, she argued, were certainly not popish .
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1. These popish additions to the Bible are commonly called the Apocrypha or sometimes the Deuterocanonical books

2. In the fourth, they provide Banishment, and death in case of return, for Jesuits and Popish priests of every denomination

3. A defrocked Anglican clergyman, Titus Oates, spoke of a "Popish Plot" to kill Charles and to put the Duke of York on the throne.

4. Pugh's ‘Bathonensium et Aquisgranensium Comparatio, rebus Adjunctis illustratis,’ 1676, 8vo, was written ‘by way of epistle to his patron, Palmer.’ During the ‘popish plot’ panic of 1678 Pugh was committed to Newgate, ‘having been betrayed by a treacherous miscreant when paying a visit of charity to the catholic gentry confined in

5. In the summer of 1606, laws against recusancy were strengthened; the Popish Recusants Act returned England to the Elizabethan system of fines and restrictions, introduced a sacramental test, and an Oath of Allegiance, requiring Catholics to abjure as a "heresy" the doctrine that "princes excommunicated by the Pope could be deposed or assassinated".