papalistn.adj.

1752 W. Hodges Christian Plan Pref. p. xxii For my reader's satisfaction and reflection, and the Papalists conviction and confusion.

1830 G. S. Faber Diffic. Romanism (ed. 2) ii. vii. 510 Unless I wholly mistake, the very hardiest of the Papalists pretend not to assert the infallibility of Ecumenical Councils in regard to Facts.

1881 Times 12 Aug. 7/5 The stage to which the deliberate fury of Papalists and anti-Papalists..has carried the quarrel.

1958 S. Runciman Sicilian Vespers ii. 35 Manfred was able to blockade the papalists throughout the summer months till they were threatened with starvation.

1990 R. W. Southern St. Anselm (BNC) 284 Like many other extreme papalists, he [sc. Anselm] draws unwelcome boundaries when he sees papal initiatives overstepping boundaries of God's will.

1867 H. C. Lea Sacerdotal Celibacy 252 The chroniclers of the period were generally papalist, and would be apt to omit recording anything which they would deem so creditable to their adversaries.

1903 Eng. Hist. Rev. 18 482 What little significance lies in the expression depends on Llywelyn's clerk's serving up to the papalist primate the conventional phraseology of Roman documents.

1964 P. F. Anson Bishops at Large ix. 325 The year 1920 saw the first of several Anglo-Catholic Congresses, and with them a rapid increase of baroque and rococo furnishings in Anglican Papalist churches.

1990 Oxf. Illustr. Hist. Christianity vi. 211 The papalist preachers who attacked Henry IV publicly in the market places.

1861 Atlantic Monthly May 632/2 Wherever Benvenuto uses a phrase or tells an anecdote which can be regarded as bearing in any way against the Church, we may be sure to find it either omitted or softened down in this Papalistic version.

1995 Sun (Baltimore) (Nexis) 1 Oct. 1 f Catholics..must not allow themselves to be victimized by any pope's..imprisonment within papalistic presumptions.