What's the difference between papistic and papistical?

Papistic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Papistical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The exiled Stuarts may have been the divisive agents of a bloody civil war, and papists to boot, but they had male heirs, and James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, was ready to pounce, with the aid of Louis XIV of France, who acknowledged him as James III.
  • (2) A year later Runcie was instrumental in inviting the Pope John Paul II to Britain and was howled down by anti-papists in his native Liverpool for doing so.

Papistical


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Church of Rome and its doctrines and ceremonies; pertaining to popery; popish; -- used disparagingly.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The exiled Stuarts may have been the divisive agents of a bloody civil war, and papists to boot, but they had male heirs, and James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, was ready to pounce, with the aid of Louis XIV of France, who acknowledged him as James III.
  • (2) A year later Runcie was instrumental in inviting the Pope John Paul II to Britain and was howled down by anti-papists in his native Liverpool for doing so.

Words possibly related to "papistic"

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