popishlyadv.

1538 H. Latimer Let. 6 Oct. in Serm. & Remains (1845) (modernized text) II. 403 Their school, it hath been maintained heretofore by a brotherhood, called a Gyld, I trow, not without some guile, popishly pardoning, and therefore now worthily decried.

1590 H. Barrow Brief Disc. False Church 240 With what sense they can thus popishly vnderstand yt of & applie yt to their communion table only.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 535 He affirmes that the conuerts of these parts are more popishly Christian, then in the midst of Rome or Spaine.

1678 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 424 All such..that are supposed to be popishly addicted.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. vii. 69 In Popishly affected, or Popishly suspected Reigns.

1770 T. Bridges Adventures of Bank-note I. v. 56 Now this Alexander Pope was always suspected to be popishly inclined.

1829 Times 6 May 3/5 They seized a prayer-book containing her form of worship, and most piously and Popishly tore its leaves out!

1896 Protestant Echo 17 126/1 This popishly styled ‘Prince of the Apostles’.

1948 M. Ward Young Mr. Newman xxi. 256 The reasons for Newman's decision to attack Rome in the Tracts are..mixed. One certainly was his desire to refute the charge that he was himself popishly inclined.

1999 Pittsburgh (Pa.) Post-Gaz. (Nexis) 5 June a13 While ‘surplice’ might be a popishly peculiar word in Baptist Alabama, in Catholic Pittsburgh lots of readers know that it's the white robe worn by priests and altar boys.