popelingn.
/ˈpəʊplɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpoʊplɪŋ/ derogatory.
1. An adherent, follower, or subordinate of the Pope; a Roman Catholic, esp. one who is a priest. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun]
papist1528
Romanist1534
Roman1537
Romist1543
papistic1545
popestant1549
flesh-maker1551
mass-monger1551
Romish1551
Pope catholicc1554
popeling1563
catholic1570
Romish Catholic1571
popera1577
Pope worshipper1579
papane1581
Roman Catholic1581
Cacolike1582
Cartholic1582
papisha1595
Babylonian1603
papal1611
popinian1613
Papalin1616
Romulist1620
papicolist1633
western1640
papagan1641
universalist1644
red-letter man1677
RC1691
Azymite1728
papalist1752
craw-thumper1786
catholicist1812
papisher1817
pontifical1832
Romanite1839
dogan1847
mickey1851
redneck1852
mackerel-snatcher1855
Latin1867
Romanensian1885
Roman candle1897
Mick1902
Mick Dooley1905
Mickey Doo1905
left-footer1911
Pape1927
right-footer1929
Doolan1940
tyke1941
Tim1958
mackerel-snapper1960
Teague1971
Mickey Doolan1972
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > Roman Catholic
Pope's Knight?1548
missary1550
popeling1563
greasling1583
Don1600
ointlinga1603
black gown1616
Dom1716
rector1908
1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments f. 63v/2 The sentence of the pope and his popelinges.
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) vi. f. 93v I can see that the old Popelynges haue all to berayde vs.
1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxxi. 340 Nor meruell we that Popelings her nor Puritanes should brook.
1643 W. Prynne Popish Royall Favourite 73 Our English Nation too, now devoted as a prey to the barbarous Irish, and other forraigne Popelings.
1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin i. vii. 31 Whatever wild Discourses, or Behaviours, Popes and Popelins have been guilty of.
1705 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft 7 How can the Pope, and all his Popelings, and general Councils..be infallible in their Faith.
1785 J. Hall Extracts Var. Devotional Writings (ed. 2) 104 Where are those deep vaults (if not mines) of penances and purgatories, and whatsoever hath been devised by those popelings.
1939 J. Joyce Finnegans Wake i. 133 Sucks life's eleaxir from the pettipickles of the Jewess and ruoulls in sulks if any popeling runs down the Huguenots.
2. A person who acts like a pope on a small scale; spec. a priest or minister who assumes popelike power or authority. Now historical and rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance > types of
popet1551
lording1567
popeling1588
lordling1630
small-timer1935
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > petty
popet1551
popeling1588
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 4 None but Antichristian popes & popelings euer claimed this authoritie vnto themselues.
c1629 A. Leighton Appeal to Parl. (ed. 2) 23 The Prelats..derive their Authority from the Pope; carry themselves as Popelings.
1654 T. Gataker Disc. Apol. 75 Having given a Bill of divorce to one Pope, beyond the Seas, enstal and enthrone a goodlie number of Popelings..at home.
1682 H. Care Hist. Popery (1735) I. ii. xlv. 313 These Popelings studied nothing else but to extinguish the Memory and honour of their Predecessors.
1799 Monthly Mag. 7 139 Still the pope bears sway; And would-be popelings, arm'd with Birmingham keys, Yet rouse us from the dead repose we seek.
1880 E. Herries Mem. J. C. Herries II. 284 An anti-Protestant Church,..over which, and over a prostrate laity, a legion of parochial popelings should reign supreme.
1927 Economica 21 350 The claim of the church of England bishops to apostolic succession cast upon them the slur that they were merely becoming popelings.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
<
n.1563