Catholic

['kæθlɪk]

解释:

(noun.) a member of a Catholic church.

(adj.) free from provincial prejudices or attachments; 'catholic in one's tastes' .

(adj.) of or relating to or supporting Catholicism; 'the Catholic Church' .

阿德莱德手打--From WordNet

解释:

(a.) Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.

(a.) Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.

(n.) A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.

(n.) An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.

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同义词及近义词：

a. [1]. Universal, general.[2]. Liberal, tolerant, not bigoted, not exclusive, not sectarian.[3]. Roman catholic.

n. Papist, Roman Catholic.

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解释:

adj. universal: general embracing the whole body of Christians: orthodox as opposed to heterodox and sectarian—applied esp. to the Christian Church before the great schism between the East and the West: liberal the opposite of exclusive: relating to the name claimed by its adherents for the Church of Rome as the alleged sole visible representative of the church founded by Christ and His apostles—the characteristic marks of the Catholic Church being universality antiquity unity: relating to the Roman Catholics.—n. an adherent of the R.C. Church.—v.t. Cathol′icise to make Catholic.—ns. Cathol′icism Catholic′ity universality: liberality or breadth of view: the tenets of the R.C. Church; Cathol′icon a universal remedy or panacea; Cathol′icos the Patriarch of Armenia.—Catholic creditor (law of Scot.) one whose debt is secured over several or the whole subjects belonging to the debtor—e.g. over two or more heritable estates; Catholic emancipation the relief of the Roman Catholics from certain vexatious penal regulations and restrictions granted in 1829; Catholic or General epistles the name given to certain epistles in the canon addressed not to particular churches or individuals but either to the Church universal or to a large and indefinite circle of readers—originally only 1 John and 1 Peter but as early as the 3d century also James Jude 2 Peter 2 and 3 John; Catholic king a title given specially to the king of Spain.—Old Catholics the title assumed by a number of Catholics who at Munich protested against the new dogma of the personal infallibility of the pope in all ex cathedr deliverances proclaimed by the Vatican Council in 1870—now a considerable communion or church in Germany and Switzerland.

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