catholic
IPA: kˈæθɫɪk
noun
- A member of a Catholic church.
adjective
- Universal; all-encompassing.
- (obsolete) Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
- (usually of people and their feelings, tastes, etc.) Embracing all.
- (of medicines or remedies, obsolete) Universally applicable.
- Of universal human interest or use.
- Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
- Of the Roman Catholic church in particular.
- Alternative letter-case form of Catholic. [Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.]
- Alternative letter-case form of catholic [Universal; all-encompassing.]
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Examples of "catholic" in Sentences
- The Catholic faith was proscribed.
- The pope is the leader of the Catholic religion.
- The community dwellers adhere to the Catholic faith.
- Catholicism is a religion, catholicity is universality.
- They dabble in themes of religion, namely the Catholic religion.
- The Catholic faith is detailed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
- The religion which is the activist in the case work is the Catholic now.
- All of this seems a way to thwart cogent expression of the Catholic faith.
- Here the freedmen would cultivate the ground and learn the Catholic religion.
- The alternative to the sale of his estates was to renounce his Catholic faith.