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popish

/poh-pish/US // ˈpoʊ pɪʃ //UK // (ˈpəʊpɪʃ) //

罂粟,罂粟花,罂粟花香,罂粟花的香味

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    Disparaging.

    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Examples

  • At this time the authorities were enforcing the payment of tithe; and this excited the wrath of the leaders of the Popish party.

  • Then, there are no private houses, as in England; families live in staircases; see what it is to belong to a Popish country.

  • In the fourth, they provide banishment, and death in case of return, for Jesuits and Popish priests of every denomination.

  • This account was related by a popish spy, in a letter written here in England to Mendea.

  • But notwithstanding this, soon afterwards, the Romish clergy erected a new popish university in the city of Dublin.