Popish

(a.) Of or pertaining to the pope; taught or ordained by the pope; hence, of or pertaining to the Roman Catholic Church; -- often used opprobriously.

校对:梅勒妮

• Had I gone to him, he would have shown me all that was tender, and comforting, and gentle, in the honest Popish superstition. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Sprat said that they openly professed, not to lay the foundation of an English, Scotch, Irish, Popish or Protestan t philosophy, but a philosophy of mankind. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• They would have been safer, it seems, among popish Spaniards, even if enemies, and delivered into their hands by a tempest. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

校对:梅勒妮