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CATHOLIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of a Catholic church
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Catholic" is a kind of...):
Christian (a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Catholic"):
Anglican Catholic (a member of the Anglican Church who emphasizes its Catholic character)
Greek Catholic (a member of the Greek Orthodox Church)
Roman Catholic (a member of the Roman Catholic Church)
Uniat; Uniate; Uniate Christian (a member of the Uniat Church)
Bishop of Rome; Catholic Pope; Holy Father; pontiff; pope; Roman Catholic Pope; Vicar of Christ (the head of the Roman Catholic Church)
Holonyms ("Catholic" is a member of...):
Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)
Derivation:
Catholic (of or relating to or supporting Catholicism)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from provincial prejudices or attachments
Example:
catholic in one's tastes
Classified under:
Similar:
broad-minded (inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own)
Derivation:
catholicity (the quality of being universal; existing everywhere)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Of or relating to or supporting Catholicism
Example:
the Catholic Church
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Catholicism (the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church)
Derivation:
Catholic (a member of a Catholic church)
Catholicism (the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church)
Context examples:
"Oh, no," he added; "I am not anything. It was a lucky trick of fate that sent me to a Catholic college for my education. Where did you pick up what you know?"
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I shall devote myself for a time to the examination of the Roman Catholic dogmas, and to a careful study of the workings of their system: if I find it to be, as I half suspect it is, the one best calculated to ensure the doing of all things decently and in order, I shall embrace the tenets of Rome and probably take the veil.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
If Mademoiselle was a Catholic, she would find true comfort, but as that is not to be, it would be well if you went apart each day to meditate and pray, as did the good mistress whom I served before Madame.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"You see?" cried Catherine triumphantly. She lowered her voice again. "It's really his wife that's keeping them apart. She's a Catholic and they don't believe in divorce."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Daisy was not a Catholic and I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
