Romistn.adj.

1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Gvij ^v Tregarius, Pelargus, Hofmester, Alphonsus de Castro, Iohan Fysher, and Thomas More, with canonystes and Romystes the deuyll and all.

1586 tr. J. F. Salvart Harmony Confessions Faith Pref. sig. ¶¶ It is the fashion of Romists to commaund, to enforce, to presse, to through out cursings, and thunder excommunications.

1606 T. Dekker Double PP sig. A1 Since so strange Commotion..Puffes the Romist vp in Armes.

1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin ii. x. 177 This..consists in Words and Deeds. Now Romists have a Marvellous Stroak at both.

1716 M. Davies Diss. Author & Oecon. Lat. Drama 6 in Athenæ Britannicæ III The Emblem of Geometry being apply'd to Presbytery, and the visionary Romists.

1784 J. Brown Compend. Hist. Brit. Churches I. 69 The church of England's imitation of the Romists.

1821 Fair Witch of Glasllyn II. 349 The Dominicans were the ultra Romists.

1879 A. T. Norton Hist. Presbyterian Church State of Illinois I. iii. 66 She gradually emerged from the bonds of her Popish education and became as devout a Protestant as she had before been a Romist.

1967 Renaissance Q. 20 219 Hooker admonishes his contemporary Romists ‘to hate and forsake their idolatry, [etc.]’.

2002 H. Parker Herman Melville (2005) II. ii. 41 Augusta had made her earnest pedestrian rounds.., trying to pass out among the hostile Romists the pious tracts.

1605 E. Sandys Relation State of Relig. sig. T2 Some of their chiefe Authors have come to such an vtter opposition to the Romist doctrine, as to have exceedingly scandalized all other Churches withall.

1661 R. Boyle Some Considerations Style Script. 96 As much a nose of wax as the Romist Catholics say we make the other.

1677 S. Clarke England's Remembrancer 110 One Drury a Romist Priest..would preach that day in the afternoon in a fair house in Black-Friers, London.

1846 J. F. Clarke Serm. Princ. & Methods Church of Disciples 24 The worship of the Romist and Episcopal churches is imposing.

1901 Free Thought Mag. Feb. 93 The proceedings..were quite as regular as an up-to-date trial for sainthood would be in the Romist church.

1938 G. H. Danton Chinese People vii. 217 The Anglican groups occupy a middle position between the strictly Romist bodies and the Protestant bodies.