non-papistadj.n.

1685 W. Petty Let. 10 Oct. in Petty-Southwell Corr. 1676–87 (1928) 172 I object that Hee ought to have put nothing in his Collumne of ‘Misrepresented’, but what is found in authentic non-papist authors; and nothing into his Collumne of ‘Represented’ but the very words of the Councill of Trent.

1874 R. H. Stoddard Prosper Mérimée's Lett. to Incognita 107 Persigny, whom the non-papist Ministers cannot endure, has become their standard-bearer.

1937 H. Cummings & C. MacFarland Federal Justice ii. 10 George Plater, one of the few non-Papist lawyers in Maryland.., disregarded his dual responsibility as attorney general and customs collector.

1985 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 1 Sept. vi. 20/1 Where the Catholics have authority as the third part of the doctrinal triad, we proclaim reason instead. Altogether congenial for the non-papist, non-royalist Anglo-Saxon temperament.

2011 M. Bragg Bk. of Bks. iii. 29 The King, now Supreme Ruler, wanted an English Bible for his new non-papist Church.

1691 W. Petty Polit. Anat. Ireland 8 There are of People, Men, Women and Children, 1,100,000... Of Non-Papists 300,000.

1894 N. Amer. Rev. July 70 Papist societies, from which non-Papists are religiously excluded, armed with rifles and bayonets, may be seen upon the public streets.

1990 Ethics 101 228 The discussion of ensoulment..requires that the reader embrace several theological and metaphysical claims of Orthodox Catholicism. There is no harm in this, but nonpapists are likely to need an argument.

2004 P. Eisner Freedom Line ii. 34 Jean-François and the real airmen were placed in a small cell for non-Papists only.