A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1584-1626
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(Papery,) Paprie, Paiprie, n. [e.m.E. papry (c 1540), popery (16th c.).] a. Popery, Roman Catholicism. b. Papacy, the office of Pope. —1584 Melvill 214.
Seing your new erected paprie and, namlie, your famus ordinar, the Archbischope, … is altogidder festered … with tham [sc. corruptions] 1622-6 Bisset II. 41/29.
Bonifacius … eftir he had renunced his paiprie
