The city of Rome as the original capital of Western Christendom, and the seat of the Pope, regarded as the place from which the authority or…

derogatory. The city of Rome as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic…

The quality or condition of being popish, popelike; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic doctrine or practice; a tendency towards or sympathy with this.

The doctrines, practices, and ceremony associated with the Pope or the Roman Catholic Church; papal power or domination; Roman Catholicism.

Roman Catholicism; spec. the external trappings associated with Roman Catholic ceremonial. Cf. papistry, n., popery, n.

Roman Catholicism, esp. as regarded as an unreasoning and threatening force; = papism, n.

The practice of trafficking in masses; gen. Roman Catholicism.

= antichristianism, n. 1.

The system of Antichrist.

derogatory. Rome, esp. as the seat of the Pope and the centre of authority of the Roman Catholic Church; (more generally) the Roman Catholic…

Frequently derogatory. The doctrines and practices of Roman Catholicism; support for or adherence to the Roman Catholic Church. Cf. papism, n.

The Roman Catholic religion or doctrines; support for or adherence to these; Roman Catholicism. Frequently depreciative.

Following the Pope; acceptance of the papal ecclesiastical system. Obsolete. rare.

derogatory. The doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church; Roman Catholicism. See Babylon, n.2 1. Obsolete. rare.

usually of the Roman Catholic Church.

The Roman Catholic faith; Roman Catholicism.

= catholicity, n.

Roman Catholic doctrine and practice; the fact of being a Roman Catholic.

= Roman Catholicism, n.

The character of belonging to, or in accordance with, the Catholic Church.

Roman Catholicism; papalism. Also in extended use.

a religion or belief which is replaced or ousted by another, spec. (a) a pre-Christian religion; (b) witchcraft or paganism; (c) Roman Catholicism.