popish's Usage Examples:

e rubric, the Protestant bishops and the commissioners made short work of such "popish stuff" as chasubles, albs and the like.

Only six days after this we find him moving for a committee to draw up a bill to secure religion and property in case of a popish successor.

Charles might have been unable, in the frenzy of the popish plot of Titus Oates, to send forces from England, but as he chose the popular Protestant, the duke of Monmouth, to command them, he was allowed to despatch some regiments.

In 1708, on the occasion of the Scottish expedition, notwithstanding her solicitude for his safety, she had styled James in her speech closing the session of parliament as "a popish pretender bred up in the principles of the most arbitrary government.

The net result was that a few years later the lower house of convocation only rejected by one vote a very puritanical petition against vestments and other popish dregs.

"On his return to London England was in the throes of the popish terror.