Definition of Popery. Meaning of Popery. Synonyms of Popery

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Definition of Popery

Popery
Popery Pop"er*y, n. The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

Meaning of Popery from wikipedia

- The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English...
- An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Anne c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act) was an act of the Parliament of...
- reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant ****ociation, argued...
- Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund...
- hosts the catholic podcast Shameless Popery. Born in 1985 in Kansas City, Joe launched his blog Shameless Popery in 2009. Joe has a law degree from Georgetown...
- Clive D. Field, "No Popery's Ghost." Journal of Religion in Europe 7#2 (2014): 116–149. Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery Archived 2008-01-03...
- of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". In contrast, the established Anglican Church...
- The Popery Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 4) was an act of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700. The long title of the Act was "An Act for the further preventing...
- Morning Exercises refers to a religious observance by Puritans in London which started at the beginning of the English Civil War. As most of the citizens...
- "The Vicar of Bray" is an eighteenth century satirical song recounting the career of The Vicar of Bray and his contortions of principle in order to retain...