papalist

noun 2adj 1

Definitions

adj

1

Supporting papal authority; supporting papalism or hierocracy.

The Summa de potestate ecclesiastica of Augustinus was reprinted in 1582 and again during each of the next three years, and it became a standard repository of papalist arguments. The pope, Augustinus had argued, has immediate power of jurisdiction over temporal as well as spiritual things […]

noun

1

A supporter of papal authority; (Middle Ages) a hierocrat.

2

A papist (Roman Catholic).

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