catholic
Language: EN · Kind: word · Transcription: [/ˈkæ.θ(ə.)lɪk/]
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Senses
1. catholic (adj) — sense 1
Definition: Universal; all-encompassing.
Example: The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.
2. catholic (adj) — sense 2
Definition: Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent.
3. catholic (adj) — sense 3
Definition: All-embracing.
Example: […]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[…]
Structure of the word
Roots:- solh₂ (Proto-Indo-European)
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