Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To or toward popery; as regards popery: used in opprobrium: as, to be popishly inclined.
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- adverb In a
popish way.
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- adverb like the Pope; in a popish manner
Etymologies
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Examples
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The "popishly inclined" county of Hereford was at one with its Bishop, but so unprepared for war that Lord Stamford, with two troops of cavalry and a single infantry regiment, entered Hereford under the orders of the Earl of
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There are many papists in the town, popishly affected, and daily encrease.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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As he was a priest, he was liable to cause irritation to such of the court and nation who were not "popishly inclined."
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His gracious Majesty hath been suspected to be popishly inclined.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
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The clergyman tarried behind him to say, "Master Talbot, I marvel that so godly a man as you have ever been should be willing to harbour one so popishly affected, and whom many suspect of being a seminary priest."
Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Thomas, who had been educated at Cambridge, was afterwards Rector of Brasteed in Kent: but being represented as popishly affected, he was ejected from his living.
The Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk, that He May Please God. d. 1631 1842
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This piece of secret history I thought proper to mention, to wipe off the suspicion of his having been popishly inclined.
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What renders this circumstance the more curious is, that Elizabeth at this very time kept a crucifix in her private chapel, and that Sampson was so far from being popishly inclined, that he had refused the bishopric of
Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822
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Shaftesbury respecting the charge against Pepys being popishly affected.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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A most irrelevant matter was introduced into the inquiry, and Pepys was charged with having a crucifix in his house, from which it was inferred that he was "a papist or popishly inclined."
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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