catholic

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/ˈkæ.θ(ə.)lɪk/

adjective

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adjective
Including many different people, things, or ideas.
02
adjective
Relating to the Roman Catholic Church.

Examples

Catholic leaders urge all of us to unite in the church.
Mass is a Catholic ceremony of remembering Jesus Christ by eating and drinking.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

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adjective

Extra meanings

Alternative letter-case form of Catholic.
Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
Universal; all-encompassing.

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Mother Teresa was a Catholic nun who lived and worked in Calcutta, India.
Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars.
The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.

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Essentially, and in idea, the empire, in the minds of the Romans, was world-wide. This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.
1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29
Newton Heath depot has lately been catholic in its choice of power for the 6.10 p.m. Manchester-Southport and the 9 p.m. back via Bolton.
1961 March, “Motive Power Miscellany”, in Trains Illustrated, page 181
And as the whole booke of Psalmes is Oleum efjusum, (as the Spouse speaks of the name of Christ) an Oyntment powred out upon all sorts of sores, A Searcloth that souples all bruises, A Balme that searches all wounds; so are there some certaine Psalmes, that are Imperiall Psalmes, that command over all affections, and spread themselves over all occasions, Catholique, universall Psalmes, that apply themselves to all necessities.
c. 1625, John Donne, edited by Evelyn M. Simpson and George R. Potter, The Sermons of John Donne, volume 7, Berkeley: University of California Press, published 1962, page 51
And this vast number is but a selection ; the editors chose only out of the mass before them what was most noteworthy and trustworthy, and what was of catholic rather than of national interest.
1868, James Anthony Froude, Short Studies on Great Subjects, 3rd edition, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., page 363
[…]a knowledge which should not only know at what particular spot in these mounds it should excavate, but, having excavated, would understand how to sift and use these materials properly, with a profoundly pious and reverential mind,—a knowledge not narrow, sectarian, one-sided, but catholic, human, large, one to which Homer and Horace and Goethe and Tennyson should no be more foreign than Church Fathers, and archæologists, palæographers and antiquaries[…]
1874, Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch, “Les Apôtres”, in Emily Ann Smythe, Viscountess Strangford, editor, Literary Remains of the Late Emanuel Deutsch, London: John Murray, page 201

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Origin

adjective

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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adjective

My uncle is a devout blank who attends mass every Sunday.