popelingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From pope +‎ -ling.

名詞

popeling (plural popelings)

1. A deputy or petty pope.
2. (often derogatory) An adherent of the pope.
   • 1593, Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris:

     He takes his vantage on religion, / To plant the Pope and popelings in the realm

   • 1621 June 29 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “The Third Sermon. At Grantham Linc[olnshire] 19. Jun. 1621.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 20, page 340:

     And idolatrous parents hovv carefull they are to nuzzle vp their Poſterity in Superſtition and Idolatry; I vvould our profeſt Popelings, and halfe-baked Proteſtants, did not let vs ſee but too often.

参照

• “popeling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• peopling