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 word catholic was obviously quite current in the time of Tertullian.
- It is taken from the word catholic, used in the sense of universal, or all-embracing.
- This is why I left this hypocritical faith after all those years of brainwashing in catholic school!
- She says something to me that I can't understand except for the word catholic, so I say yes to catholic.
- Nay if it even be what they term catholic, they pretend a title, as if the kings of Castile were the natural heirs of all the world.
- It has converted all the pagan nations that have ever been converted, and the title catholic belongs to the Roman Catholic Church alone.
- The pastor of Lyons, however, recognizes the distinction indicated by the word catholic, for he speaks of the _ecclesiastici_ or churchmen, and of those "_qui sunt undique_."
- "A third-world pope would clearly indicate that this is no longer a European church, that we are truly catholic in the sense that the word catholic means universal," said the Rev.
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- It is true that patristic writers may sometimes play with the word catholic, and develop its etymological suggestiveness with an eye to erudition or edification, but the only connotation upon which they insist as a matter of serious import is the idea of diffusion throughout the world.
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