Perhaps that could be called a papist bull, though hardly with impunity. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 2 No 1] Reference
To be a "papist" or "hear Mass" -- which were construed as the same thing -- was punishable by death as high treason. From Wordnik.com. [A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.] Reference
34 The Ruine of Rome was punctuated with belligerent language of this sort, and Dent used "papist" and "Romish" as the worst of epithets. From Wordnik.com. [Luther and English Apocalypticism: The Role of Luther in Three Seventeenth-Century Commentaries on the Book of Revelation] Reference
Commons had married another papist -- Mary of Modena. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
It will be good to own land, have our own soil away from that papist cesspool. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Better you had let me think your father a papist knave than to tell me such secrets. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
It was or should be the highest object of a governor to crush every papist scoundrel. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Some opined that the wealthy goldsmith was about to turn papist, and re-establish Lady. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunes of Nigel] Reference
For if he do/then doth he publiquely professe hymself to be a papist/which is euen to denie. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful A Treatise of the Cohabitation Of the Faithful with the Unfaithful by Peter Martyr; Wherunto is Added A Sermon made of the Confessing of Christ and His Gospel and of the Denying of the same, by Henry Bullinger] Reference
In 1960, a papist "RC" was almost as exotic as Obama and Kennedy had to campaign hard in WV. From Wordnik.com. [Newsweek: Obama's Appalachia Problem Is Real] Reference
It invoked the specter of Northeastern port cities being overrun by the papist lower classes. From Wordnik.com. [Aziz Huq: Why Virgil Goode is So Wholly Wrong] Reference
After the pursuit was over, some straggling papist troops meeting with a poor peasant, who was. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
He could like the Protestant better were it not for the puritan, and the papist but for the Jesuit. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The same reasons operated against the crowning of Charles the Second's queen, who was also a papist. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
"You do not mean a papist college!" exclaimed the baronet, with unfeigned surprise and consternation. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
That helps explain the occasional papal activities that cause the non-papist to react with astonishment. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Brauchli: The Pope and The Prelate] Reference
This made several people very angry, leading me to be denounced as some sort of anti-papist, which I am. From Wordnik.com. [Barrett Brown: Protein Wisdom and the Radness of Crowds] Reference
"The interpreter," 1622, deals with "three principall terms of state -- a puritan, a Protestant, a papist.". From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
It was in vain they used every means their perverse ingenuity suggested to intimidate this dangerous papist. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
You grasped an idea without knowing whether it made you realist, romanticist, or classicist; papist, puritan, or pagan. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
Argyle and to Lord Leven that he could not get the Court of St. Germains to listen to his projects until he had declared himself a papist. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II.] Reference
The government of the kingdom was, at that time, invested in the earl of Tyrconnel, a bigoted papist, and an inveterate enemy to the protestants. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
When the cyndic of Lucerne, who was indeed a papist, but not a bigoted one, saw the great number of wounded men brought into that city, he exclaimed, ah!. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The papist hath some colour of Scripture to maintain his idol of bread, but no Jesuitical distinction can cover the witchmongers 'idolatry in this behalf. From Wordnik.com. [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference
None of the Cameronians would, for any earthly consideration, even to save their lives, for a moment admit that a papist had any right to exercise political power in. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference
He started, but he was pushed into the Ohio River in the night of the 10th of April, 1850, between 11 and 12 o'clock by a papist instigated by the power of darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Enemies of True Republicanism] Reference
For according, to them, an infidel or papist may have a just and lawful authority over us, notwithstanding all, both the reformation and revolution laws, to the contrary. From Wordnik.com. [Act, Declaration, & Testimony for the Whole of our Covenanted Reformation, as Attained to, and Established in Britain and Ireland; Particularly Betwixt the Years 1638 and 1649, Inclusive] Reference
Murray returned to Scotland: the Queen remained a prisoner in England, to be -- with or without her own complicity -- the centre of every papist plot till the final tragedy. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
Higher up the street the angry man encountered a group of dark-haired, sallow-faced miners who were taking a holiday, and a hiss of "papist! papist!" greeted him as he passed. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
Anti-Catholics who have yet to meet their first church-going papist-backwoods fundamentalists; columnists for The Nation - no doubt have found much to justify their prejudices. From Wordnik.com. [Pulpit Politics And Moral Leaders] Reference
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