Catholic
['kæθlɪk]
Definition
(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' .
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Definition
(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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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Universal, general.[2]. Liberal, tolerant, not bigoted, not exclusive, not sectarian.[3]. Roman catholic.
n. Papist, Roman Catholic.
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Definition
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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Examples
- In the days of ignorance there had been an extraordinary willingness to believe the Catholic priesthood good and wise. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We have already shown how the hold of the Catholic church upon the consciences of men was weakening at this time. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Polish language was banned, and the Greek Orthodox church was substituted for the Roman Catholic as the State religion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In Britain, England carried on her back the Hanoverian dominions in Germany, Scotland, the profoundly alien Welsh and the hostile and Catholic Irish. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is not good scripture, but it is sound Catholic and human nature. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You're not a Catholic, are you? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They estranged all Catholic opinion, as his coronation had estranged all liberal opinion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- My mother was an honorable woman and a good Catholic and they shot her with my father because of the politics of my father who was a Republican. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In Roman catholic countries, the spirit of devotion is supported altogether by the monks, and by the poorer parochial clergy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We have to distinguish clearly between two entirely different systems of opposition to the Catholic church. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Meanwhile the King was plotting and looking for help in strange quarters--from the Catholic Irish, from treasonable Scotchmen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Among the chief pleasures of the Catholic monarch between meals during this time of retirement were funeral services. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But their main achievement lay in raising the standard of Catholic education. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The good Catholic Portuguese crossed himself and prayed God to shield him from all blasphemous desire to know more than his father did before him. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The pauper and the miser are as free as any in the Catholic Convents of Palestine. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Irish Catholics had made a massacre of the Protestant English in Ireland, and now Cromwell suppressed the Irish insurrection with great vigour. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were Catholics, Democrats and old-fashioned trade-unionists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The Ulster Protestants were treated little better than the Catholics in these matters, and they were the chief of the rebels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- This will anger the farmers, that will arouse the Catholics, another will shock the summer girl. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The English catholics, treated with much greater injustice, established that of Maryland; the quakers, that of Pennsylvania. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It is an imposture--this grotto stuff--but it is one that all men ought to thank the Catholics for. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The Turks have their sacred relics, like the Catholics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- One night a thunder-storm broke; a sort of hurricane shook us in our beds: the Catholics rose in panic and prayed to their saints. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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