单词 | church papist |
释义 | church papistn. derogatory. Now historical. In the late 16th and 17th centuries: a Roman Catholic conforming outwardly to the Church of England, in order to escape the penalties enacted against recusants (recusant n. 2a) from the reign of Elizabeth I until the Second Relief Act of 1791. Cf. church-Catholic n. at church n.1 and adj. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > Roman Catholic sects and groups > [noun] > English > person > outwardly conforming schismatic1584 church papist1588 church-Catholic1628 1588 J. Udall True Remedie ii. f. 38 Church-papistes..pretend a loue vnto the state, and a contentednesse to liue quietlie in it, so that they may be let alone to vse their conscience. 1603 A. Dent Path-way to Heauen (new ed.) 125 Their hart is with Poperie: They haue a Pope, in their belly they bee Church-papists. 1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xi. sig. G7 A Church-Papist..comes to Church not to serue God, but the King..He loues Popery well, but is loath to lose by it. 1680 R. Baxter Def. Nonconformists Plea for Peace xx. 60 If he [sc. a minister] know a man to be a Papist, if he be a Church-Papist, or have a dispensation, he cannot on that account deny him the Sacrament. 1715 D. Disney Compend. Hist. Church in Eng. 120 That Queen's Treasurer was known to be a Church Papist, and yet continued in that great Post 14 Years till his Death. 1822 L. Aikin Mem. Court of King James I. II. xviii. 120 Many church papists,..throughout the country, had been admitted into the commission of the peace, and into various offices of trust. 1904 E. Godfrey Social Life under Stuarts xiii. 188 The fines and disabilities with which recusants were loaded made more Church Papists than it did converts. 2006 Church Times 24 Mar. 23/1 Practising Catholics ranged from the recusants..to the church papists who remained loyal to their parishes while clinging to the old faith in their homes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1588 |
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