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spec. In Roman Catholic use, one of those Roman Catholics who in the reign of Elizabeth conformed by occasionally attending the services of the…
In the late 16th and 17th centuries: a Roman Catholic conforming outwardly to the Church of England, in order to escape the penalties enacted…