Catholic
Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
Adjective
- Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
- Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars.
- Who or what is a Catholic? This Greek word has become one of the chief battlegrounds in western Latin Christianity, for it is used in different ways which outside observers of Christian foibles find thoroughly...
Hypernyms: Christian
Coordinate Terms: Orthodox
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Of the Roman Catholic church in particular.
- The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic one.
- Catholic churches are adorned differently from Protestant ones.
Hypernyms: Christian
Coordinate Terms: Orthodox Protestant
- Alternative letter-case form of catholic.
Origin
From Old French catholique, from Latin catholicus, from Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós, “universal”), from κατά (katá, “according to”) + ὅλος (hólos, “whole”).
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Anglo-Catholic are bears Catholic Catholic Church Catholic frog Catholicisation ization Catholicise ize Catholic Island Catholicism Greek Catholic Independent Catholic Independent Catholicism is the Pope Catholic neo-Catholic non-Catholic post-Catholic
Proper noun
- A surname.
Noun
- A member of a Catholic (western Christian) church.
Hypernyms: Christian religionist person
Coordinate Terms: Orthodox
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(elliptically, often) A member of the Roman Catholic Church (which is also elliptically called the Catholic Church).
- The wife of the Prime Minister is a Catholic.
- The consubstantialists, who by their success have deserved and obtained the title of Catholics, gloried in the simplicity and steadiness of their own creed, and insulted the repeated variations of their adversaries, who...
Synonyms: Roman Catholic
Hypernyms: Christian religionist person
Coordinate Terms: Orthodox Anglican Protestant Quaker
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Armenian Catholic Coptic Catholic Eritrean Catholic Ethiopian Catholic Greek Catholic post-Catholic Roman Catholic Syriac Catholic