Definition of "papistical" []

• Being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith. (adjective)

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• "The followers of Archbishop Laud, who supported Charles I, had reintroduced papistical ceremonies."
• "It will be hard to instance where any ignorant man hath been ever seduced by papistical book in English, unless it were commended and expounded to him by some of that clergy: and indeed all such tractates, whether false or true, are as the prophecy of Isaiah was to the eunuch, not to be UNDERSTOOD"
• "If the patron be precise, so must his chaplain be; if he be papistical, his clerk must be so too, or else be turned out."