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popestant|ˈpəʊpɪstənt| Also 6 popistant. [f. pope n.1 after Protestant.] A nonce-word for papist as opposed to protestant.
a1550Pore Helpe 270 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 262, I feare me he be wext A popistant stout. 1551Morryson in Froude Hist. Eng. V. xxviii. 339 note, Would God the French king were as like to become a right Protestant as our master is unlike to become a blundering Popistant. 1880Dixon Windsor III. xiv. 132 Protestants and popestants were to him the same. |