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papish, n. and a. Now dial.|ˈpeɪpɪʃ| [app. f. pape, dial. form of pope (F. pape, L. pāpa).] A. adj. Papistical, popish. (A hostile epithet.)
1546Gardiner Declar. Joye 21 b, This they wyll aske me. Thow papysshe bysshop and folish lawer, doest thow deny predestination? [Side note] They vse the word papish, to stop euery mans mouth withall. 1566in Peacock Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 137 The vestments, albs, amesses..that belong to the papishe priste. 1759Dilworth Pope 148 None but apish and papish brats will heed him. c1817Hogg Tales & Sk. III. 160 The rebel crew, and their papish prince. 1898Crockett Stand. Bearer xiv. 118 He had been a Papish priest some-gate in his youth. B. n. = papist. dial. or illiterate.
1604in R. E. C. Waters Parish Reg. Eng. (1883) 68 Christian Steevens..was buried by women, for she was a papishe. 1668Dryden Sir M. Mar-all iv. i, There are some Papishes, I'll warrant, that lie in wait for my daughter. 1792F. Burney Let. to Mrs. Phillips Sept., Upon the..supposition that, being nothing but French papishes, they would never pay. 1802Coleridge Lett., to T. Wedgwood (1895) 417 The climate and country are heavenly, the inhabitants Papishes. 1828Craven Gloss. (ed. 2), Papish, a papist. 1894Lyttle Betsy Gray 16 (E.D.D.) Ye ca'd him a Papish an' a rebel. |