papalist
nounEtymology From papal + -ist.
1
Historical A supporter of papal authority; (Middle Ages) a hierocrat.
2
Derogatory, Rare A papist (Roman Catholic).
papalist
adjEtymology From papal + -ist.
1
Historical 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 […]1968, William J. Bouwsma, Venice and the Defense of Republican Liberty: Renaissance Values in the Age of Counter Reformation, page 312: