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Definition of popish in English: popishadjective ˈpəʊpɪʃˈpoʊpɪʃ derogatory Roman Catholic. Example sentencesExamples - This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
- Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
- This kept alive the paranoia about popish plots that had been so damaging in the 1640s.
- Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
- He was suspected of recusancy, and in 1569 and 1570 was charged with possessing popish and dangerous writings; he was examined before the ecclesiastical commission, but escaped without punishment.
- For the time being, however, he read a statement from Sellon which threw some light on the stories of all three girls: the worship and religious customs of the house, she argued, were certainly not popish.
- Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
- This outlandish-seeming conspiracy theory, Bellany argues, was plausible to many contemporaries, including the prosecutor Sir Edward Coke, because it tapped into deeply felt pre-existing fears about the likelihood of popish plots.
- The last Scottish coronation, that of Charles II in 1651, was a hasty business in the midst of adversity: Charles was required to swear to the covenant, and anointing was dropped as a superstitious and popish practice.
- Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion.
- The Covenanters, for instance, fought to rid Scotland of what they feared were popish influences.
- Religious bigots have branded her an example of popish excess - a whore and perhaps a murderess.
- He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
- Those accusing him in his trial, however, proved themselves comparatively ignorant of popish doctrine and appeared foolish against Latimer's defence.
Definition of popish in US English: popishadjectiveˈpōpiSHˈpoʊpɪʃ derogatory Roman Catholic. Example sentencesExamples - For the time being, however, he read a statement from Sellon which threw some light on the stories of all three girls: the worship and religious customs of the house, she argued, were certainly not popish.
- This was sensible enough in a Britain which still subliminally linked civil liberty with Protestantism, and therefore regarded Irishness as a likely pointer to popish subversion of its political values.
- The Covenanters, for instance, fought to rid Scotland of what they feared were popish influences.
- He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
- This kept alive the paranoia about popish plots that had been so damaging in the 1640s.
- Because of their popish associations he also objected to the traditional episcopal vestments.
- The last Scottish coronation, that of Charles II in 1651, was a hasty business in the midst of adversity: Charles was required to swear to the covenant, and anointing was dropped as a superstitious and popish practice.
- Attempts in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to adopt the new calendar had broken on the rock of the Church of England, which denounced it as popish.
- Religious bigots have branded her an example of popish excess - a whore and perhaps a murderess.
- Finally, there was a pair of crotchety knights, Sir William Fawnt and the popish recusant Sir Henry Shirley, who sought to bring down Huntingdon by levying false charges of fraud against him.
- Surely this can be read as Jonson's way of protesting his innocence in the whole Powder treason and the charges of seducing youth to popish religion.
- Those accusing him in his trial, however, proved themselves comparatively ignorant of popish doctrine and appeared foolish against Latimer's defence.
- He was suspected of recusancy, and in 1569 and 1570 was charged with possessing popish and dangerous writings; he was examined before the ecclesiastical commission, but escaped without punishment.
- This outlandish-seeming conspiracy theory, Bellany argues, was plausible to many contemporaries, including the prosecutor Sir Edward Coke, because it tapped into deeply felt pre-existing fears about the likelihood of popish plots.
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