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Popish
Popish meaning
of or pertaining to Roman Catholicism | acting like, or holding beliefs similar to, the pope.
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A detailed account of the Popish Plot and Pepys' involvement in it, 1679–1680.
O Lord our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish used to be popish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all.
The first statute to address sectarian dissent from England's official religion was enacted in 1593 under Elizabeth I and specifically targeted Catholics, under the title "An Act for restraining Popish recusants".
The Monument was built to commemorate the fire: for over a century and a half it bore an inscription attributing the conflagration to a "popish frenzy".
The Puritans objected to ornaments and ritual in the churches as idolatrous (vestments, surplices, organs, genuflection), which they castigated as " popish pomp and rags".
This resulted in the dispersal and destruction of many books deemed 'popish' and 'superstitious'.