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catholic
1[ kath-uh-lik, kath-lik ]
adjective
- broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal.
- universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.
- pertaining to the whole Christian body or church.
Catholic
2[ kath-uh-lik, kath-lik ]
adjective
- of or relating to a Catholic church, especially the Roman Catholic Church.
- Theology.
- (among Roman Catholics) claiming to possess exclusively the notes or characteristics of the one, only, true, and universal church having unity, visibility, indefectibility, apostolic succession, universality, and sanctity: used in this sense, with these qualifications, only by the Church of Rome, as applicable only to itself and its adherents and to their faith and organization; often qualified, especially by those not acknowledging these claims, by prefixing the word Roman.
- (among Anglo-Catholics) noting or pertaining to the conception of the church as the body representing the ancient undivided Christian witness, comprising all the orthodox churches that have kept the apostolic succession of bishops, and including the Anglican Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Church of Sweden, the Old Catholic Church (in the Netherlands and elsewhere), etc.
- pertaining to the Western Church.
noun
- a member of a Catholic church, especially of the Roman Catholic Church.
Catholic
1/ ˈkæθlɪk; ˈkæθəlɪk /
adjective
- denoting or relating to the entire body of Christians, esp to the Church before separation into the Greek or Eastern and Latin or Western Churches
- denoting or relating to the Latin or Western Church after this separation
- denoting or relating to the Roman Catholic Church
- denoting or relating to any church, belief, etc, that claims continuity with or originates in the ancient undivided Church
noun
- a member of any of the Churches regarded as Catholic, esp the Roman Catholic Church
catholic
2/ ˈkæθəlɪk; kəˈθɒlɪklɪ; ˈkæθlɪk /
adjective
- universal; relating to all men; all-inclusive
- comprehensive in interests, tastes, etc; broad-minded; liberal
Derived Forms
- catholically, adverb
Other Words From
- ca·thol·i·cal·ly ca·thol·ic·ly [k, uh, -, thol, -ik-lee], adverb
- ca·tholi·cal·ness catho·lic·ness noun
- pseudo·ca·tholi·cal·ly adverb
- super·catho·lic adjective
- super·ca·tholi·cal·ly adverb
- un·catho·lic adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of catholic1
Word History and Origins
Origin of catholic1
Example Sentences
Although she and her siblings were raised Catholic, she was active at Israel Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the Petworth neighborhood, Bowser’s statement said.
Strom was born blind in 1946 and grew up in a Catholic family that moved from Louisiana to Kentucky.
All-Protestant counties had literacy rates nearly 20 percentage points higher than all-Catholic counties.
Kelpinski’s ad in the Blade, among other things, mentioned he had a “Catholic background,” which he later learned caught Bartman’s attention.
After getting degrees from Georgetown and Catholic universities, Anderson spent his career as a speech and language pathologist at Gallaudet University before working in a similar role for Montgomery County Public Schools for more than 20 years.
After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.
The family was English Catholic and Alfred, like his brother and sister, was raised in the faith, educated by Jesuits.
A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.
Laylah and her older sister, Destiny, attended the school affiliated with Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church.
Hegazy, the daughter of an Egyptian-Muslim father and an Italian-Catholic mother, grew up in New York City.
The Roman Catholic priesthood, to a man, would lend to it the influence of all its spiritual authority.
Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.
There were grades of rank among the priesthood; but not more so than in the Roman Catholic Church.
He would also abolish the oaths in that establishment, distinguishing Roman Catholic office-bearers from Protestants.
The Roman Catholic chapels, and the ways of access to them, were also treated as "public works."
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