Word.ws English Dictionary

papistic

papistic adjective: being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.

Adjective

papistic (comparative more papistic, superlative most papistic)

  1. (derogatory) Being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.
    • The old papistic worship.1774-1781, Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry
    Synonyms:
    papistical, papist

Synonyms of papistic

Forms of papistic

comparativemore papistic
superlativemost papistic
alternative formpapistical

Origin of papistic

From papist + -ic.

Words formed from papistic

Questions about papistic

What does papistic mean?
Papistic means being of or connected with the Roman Catholic faith.
What part of speech is papistic?
Papistic is an adjective.

Words near papistic in the dictionary

  1. papishly
  2. papism
  3. papisms
  4. papissa
  5. papist
  6. papistic
  7. papistical
  8. papistically
  9. papistly
  10. papistries
  11. papistry

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: papistic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “papistic.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/papistic. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.