Definitionadj. of or relating to or supporting Romanism
Last update: June 15, 2015
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John is a papist. [Please select]
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He writes: "In my tender yeares, and barneage in Sanct-Androis at the Schooles, having, on the one parte, contracted a loving familiaritie with a certaine Gentleman, &c. a Papist; And on the other part, being attentive to the sermons of that worthie man of God, Maister Christopher Goodman, teaching upon the Apocalyps, I was so mooved in admiration, against the blindnes of Papists, that could not most evidently see their seven hilled citie Rome, painted out there so lively by Saint John, as the mother of all spiritual whoredome, that not onely bursted I out in continual reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thenceforth, I determined with my selfe (by the assistance of Gods spirit) to employ my studie and diligence to search out the remanent mysteries of that holy Book: as to this houre (praised be the Lorde) I have bin doing at al such times as conveniently I might have occasion." [Please select]
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Perhaps this young man is a Papist. [Please select]
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"It's odds, though, that when you return this way you'll find me turned Papist."' [Please select]
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He refused to pay a tax because the tax collector was a "Papist," and therefore no fit person to receive the money. [Please select]
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James was a Papist, William a Dutchman; but the Princess Anne was an Englishwoman and a Protestant. [Please select]
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"Then I'll take leave to marvel that with so keen a nose your lordship can't smell a papist at four paces."' [Please select]
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"Ex hoc nunc et usque in seculum," replied Blood, the occasional papist, with lowered eyes. [Please select]
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