Usually means: Catholic practices, viewed pejoratively historically.
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  1. popery: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. popery: Merriam-Webster
  3. popery: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. popery: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. popery: Collins English Dictionary
  6. popery: Vocabulary.com
  7. Popery, popery: Wordnik
  8. popery: Wiktionary
  9. popery: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. popery: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Popery, popery: Dictionary.com
  12. Popery: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Popery: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. popery: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. popery: Rhymezone
  16. Popery: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. popery: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. popery: FreeDictionary.org
  19. popery: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. popery: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. popery: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (usually derogatory, Christianity) The teachings, practices and accoutrements of the Roman Catholic Church.

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