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n. Offensive The doctrines, practices, and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church.

n. The teachings, practices and accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church.

n. The religion of the Roman Catholic Church, comprehending doctrines and practices; -- generally used in an opprobrious sense.

n. The doctrines, customs, ceremonies, and polity associated with the office and person of the Pope, or with the Roman Catholic Church, of which he is the supreme head; papacy: used in opprobrium.

n. offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church

"It must be remembered that there was less of priestcraft -- less of what we now call popery -- in those earlier days than there came to be later on; and the springs of truth, though somewhat tainted, were not poisoned, as it were, at the very source, as they afterwards became."

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serfdom    princedom    heathenism    prelacy    Jacobinism    bunghole    priestcraft    hoaxer