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catholicadj.n. Origin: Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French catholique, Latin catholicus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French catholike, catholique (French catholique ) (adjective) relating to the Roman Catholic Church and its teachings (beginning of the 14th cent. in Old French), (of a person) following the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (1370), (noun) follower of Roman Catholic teachings (a1400), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin catholicus (adjective) universal, general (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), in accordance with the teachings of the Christian church (4th cent.), (noun) member of the Catholic church (4th cent.; see note on how the term was understood historically) < ancient Greek καθολικός (adjective) general, universal < καθόλου (i.e. καθ' ὅλου ) on the whole, in general, as a whole, generally, universally ( < κατά concerning, in respect of, according to (see cata- prefix) + ὅλος whole: see holo- comb. form) + -ικός -ic suffix.Compare Old Occitan catolic (13th cent.), Catalan Catòlic (14th cent.), Spanish católico (10th cent.), Portuguese católico (13th cent.), Italian cattolico (early 14th cent.), Early Irish cathlac (12th cent.), Welsh Catholig (13th cent.), Old High German catholīc (in an apparently isolated attestation). Compare also Dutch katholiek (1521 as catholijck ), and (with different suffix) German katholisch (16th cent.), Swedish katolsk , †katolisk (1582). Semantic background. The Greek phrase ἡ καθολικὴ ἐκκλησία , literally ‘the universal church’, was originally (in Hellenistic Greek) used to denoted all followers of Christianity collectively (as opposed to individual congregations), but subsequently came to denote the teaching and followers of one particular tradition, which claimed to directly represent the original teachings of the early Church, in opposition to what it regarded as heresy. This was borrowed into Latin as ecclesia catholica , and after the schism was typically used to refer to the Latin-speaking Church of Rome led by the Pope (compare sense A. 5, as opposed to the Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe; compare orthodox adj. 3). During the Reformation, this use was reinforced to distinguish the Church of Rome from the new Protestant denominations (but compare also the discussion at branch A. I.). Variant forms. The β. forms (with initial ch ) are paralleled in Latin in the same period and appear to show a graphic assimilation of the initial to the internal th (without a change of pronunciation). They sometimes appear alongside α. forms in the same texts. Specific senses. In use as noun with reference to the primate of one of the Eastern churches (see sense B. 2) after post-classical Latin catholicus, catholicos or its etymon Byzantine Greek καθολικός, noun (see Catholicos n.). Pronunciation This is one of a small number of borrowings in -ic in which the stress is not on the penultimate syllable; compare the discussion at -ic suffix. A. adj. I. In ecclesiastical use. Since the Reformation, the term ‘Catholic’ has chiefly been used to denote the part of the medieval Western or Latin Church which continued to be led by the Pope, as opposed to Protestant Churches (Lutheran, Reformed, or those episcopally-governed Churches descending from the Church of England which are now collectively referred to as the Anglican Communion) . Churches of the Reformation, however, also retained the term, giving it a wider or more absolute sense, not as the attribute of a single community, but of the whole communion of all Christians of all churches and ages. Particularly from the 19th century, some Anglicans claimed that the reformed Church in England was the national branch of the ‘Catholic Church’ in its historical sense (see sense A. 1a). This gave rise to the attempt to distinguish the continuing Latin Church under papal obedience, by further qualifying its chosen epithet of ‘Catholic’ with ‘Roman’ (but see sense A. 5). On this analogy Anglo-Catholic adj. and n. has been used since the mid 19th cent. as a self-descriptor for one ecclesiastical party and its adherents in the Anglican Communion. 1. a. Of or belonging to the ancient Christian Church before the Great Schism between Eastern and Western Churches in the 11th cent., or any Church standing in historical continuity with it claiming shared doctrine, system, and practice (see sense A. 1b); of the true apostolic Church. society > faith > aspects of faith > orthodoxy > [adjective] c1350 Athanasian Creed (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring (1891) 193 Who so wyl be sauf, nede it is to hym..þat he holde þe catholich faiþe. c1500 (1895) 31 My byleue is as a Catholique byleue oughte for to be. 1551 T. Cranmer 1 An explication and assertion of the true catholyke fayth in the mattier of the sacrament. 1640 W. Habington (ed. 3) iii. 169 Catholique faith is the foundation on which he erects Religion. 1762 P. Lodvill tr. i. 88 Those who deserve well of the Church; and endeavour to propogate and extend the orthodox and catholic Religion. 1840 No. 85. vi The Catholic or Church system of doctrine and worship. 1983 63 366 We can acknowledge him [sc. Luther] as the champion of a catholic doctrine of grace. 2010 R. Roukema x. 193 The Nicene Creed is a concise, orderly account of the catholic faith. c1441 in J. Raine (1841) 258 The worthy catholike king..gaff thaim lesence for ever to have accesse to the said place. c1500 (1895) 32 A man very catholoque & of good feith. 1531 T. Elyot iii. xxii. sig. fviiv Wherein no good catholyke man wyll any thynge doute though they be meruaylous. 1676 A. Sall i. v. 38 I do not deny that Cranmer was truly ordained, having received his ordination from Catholic Bishops: so as I confess he lived and died a true Bishop. 1762 P. Lodvill tr. 9 What doth it behove a Catholic and Orthodox Christian Man to believe and do, that he may have eternal Life? 1881 E. A. Freeman I. iv. 101 The lands ruled either by the Catholic Frank or by the Arian Goth. 1982 72 14 The Lombards in Italy were surrounded and far outnumbered by the Catholic Romans. 2015 J. P. Wawrykow in H. Boersma & M. Levering xv. 218 The sacraments held tremendous significance for Catholic Christians in the thirteenth century. a1500 (c1421) in C. Monro (1863) 26 (MED) Contening al the bible, with gret part of Catholic Doctours for the better understanding of that same bible. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Pref. 14 Whatsoeuer in any catholike wryter is conteyned. 1593 T. Bilson xi. 157 What Presbyterie the primitiue Churches and Catholike fathers did acknowledge. 1632 R. Winterton tr. J. Gerhard 313 It is necessarie that this consent be grounded on the Catholike writings of the Prophets and Apostles, which are the onely foundation of the Church. 1705 W. Wall II. viii. 265 These two last mention'd Opinions they have of the most antient Catholic Fathers. 1842 No. 86. v. §3 What is popularity when it is opposed to Catholic Antiquity? 1927 H. C. Watt in (Sisters of Mercy, New Hampsh.) May 7/2 Nor..does Anthony Stafford take issue..with the Marian doctrine of these Catholic Fathers. 2002 S. F. Brown in J. J. E. Gracia & T. B. Noone ii. 23 The traditional Catholic Fathers of the Church had a longer claim to respect. ?1567 (new ed.) 355 Whatsoeuer was so enacted in this Englyshe churche, had sufficient strength, aucthoritie, and power, beyng a catholike and an apostolyke churche in it selfe. 1680 5 Now that which gives the Pope such a peculiar Envy to the Church of England, is this:..We retain the Face of an Ancient Catholick and Apostolick Church. 1725 P. Gretton viii. 281 We know you believe the Articles of the Apostles Creed, and are so far a catholic Church. 1833 C. F. Crusé tr. Eusebius (ed. 2) vi. xliii. 265 One bishop in a catholic church. 1962 W. M. Southgate iii. 52 Jewel stated categorically that the Church of Rome by professing doctrines which had no basis whatever in early apostolic and patristic Christianity, could no longer claim to be a Catholic Church. 2002 P. Avis (ed. 2) iii. 73 According to the pre-Laudian consensus, the Church of England was a catholic church whose roots went back to the beginning of the Christian era. ?1526 J. Fisher iii. sig. F The succession of Peter in dispite of al their ennemyes dothe yet continue, and yet beareth the name of the veray catholicke churche, and so shall do vnto the worldis ende. c1534 Abp. Lee in J. Lingard (1855) V. i. 18/1 So that..the unitie of the faiethe and of the Catholique Chyrche [be] saved. c1670 Bp. J. Taylor ii. 4 The Catholic Church hath been too much and too soon divided..but in things simply necessary, God hath preserved us still unbroken: all nations and all ages recite the Creed..and all Churches have been governed by Bishops. 1705 R. Nelson (ed. 3) ii. vii. 456 The ancientest Fathers of the Catholick Church. 1834 No. 61. 2 We [sc. English Church] are a branch of the Church Catholic. 1872 E. A. Freeman vi. 111 The people of the Oriental provinces..putting forth or adopting doctrines which the Catholic Church, both of the Old and of the New Rome, looked on as heretical. 1912 24 May 10/2 There might be differences of opinion as to which was the proper successor to the Catholic Church of old. 1939 H. H. Henson 64 The Anglican appeal lay to that Christian antiquity which preserved the picture of an undivided Catholic Church. 1989 15 Aug. 5/3 It is recognition of the Catholic Church as an accepted part of Scottish life, as it was before the Reformation. 2015 K. W. Kaatz 8 Its [sc. the Nicene Creed's] ruling was crystal clear—the Catholic Church cursed everyone who believed anything the Arians believed. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus iii. 151 By some they are accounted catholique [L. catholici] or true Mahumetans, and by others they are holden for heretiks. 1613 S. Purchas vii. vii. 575 They are not all Catholike Mahumetans. 2. society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [adjective] c1443 R. Pecock (1927) 453 (MED) Þer is [not] eny gretter bileeue þan is þe comoun feiþ..which comoun feiþ is clepid catholik, þat is to seie vniuersal, profrid to alle men in holi scripture. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 94 He can neuer prooue his reseruation to be catholike or vniversally allowed and practised of the Church. 1651 C. Cartwright i. 10 That Church whose Doctrine is most Catholick and universall must be the Catholick Church. 1777 J. W. Fletcher Ep. Ded. p. iv A great friend to a catholic gospel. 1807 J. Jebb Let. 20 Aug. in J. Jebb & A. Knox (1834) I. 370 A catholic liturgy, must be formed on a catholic plan; that is, from a harmony of those dispersed and vital truths, which, in different ages, different countries, and different churches, were popularly, and effectually embodied, in established liturgies. 1882 F. W. Farrar I. 250 Christianity in all Churches was, and ever must be, in its essence Catholic—one and indivisible. 1970 July–Aug. 7/1 I am first a Christian, secondly a catholic or universal Christian, thirdly a Calvinist. 2016 A. C. Osheim ii. 86 The universal church's discernment of a shared and catholic faith that is expressed diversely by the local churches. society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [adjective] society > faith > sect > Christianity > person > [noun] > collective c1456 R. Pecock (Trin. Cambr.) (1909) 285 (MED) Ech trewe feithful particuler chirche ouȝte be clepid orthodoxe chirche, thouȝ not ech such particuler feithful ouȝte be clepid catholik chirche, that is to seie, universal or general chirche. 1560–1 xvi Whiche Kirk is Catholik, that is universall, becaus it conteanes the Elect of all aiges, all realmes, nationis, and tounges, be thai of the Jewis or be thai of the Gentiles, who have communioun and societie with God the Father, and with his Sone Christ Jesus. 1645 J. Ussher (1647) 187 The Catholick Church, that is, God's whole or universall Assembly. 1739 II. xci. 344 What and where is that church to which Christ has left this power?..Is it to the catholic and universal church, or to any national or provincial church? 1847 J. Yeowell xi. 110 As members of the church catholic. 1915 A. B. Roe 64 All sectarianism and priestcraft will vanish away. The universal catholic church alone will remain. 2004 W. Kasper v. 81 The universal catholic Church is not identical with the Roman Catholic (Latin) Church. 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. f. 4v The moste noble lady Catharine, quene of Englande, doughter of the Catholike king Ferdinande [L. Ferdinandi regis Catholici]. 1588 W. Allen (title) Admonition to the Nobility and People of England..by the high and mightie kinge Catholike of Spaine. 1699 tr. B. de las Casas Art of Travelling in 234 The Orders given by the most Catholic Queen Isabella to General De-Larés were very prudent and useful. 1746 tr. E. Farnesio 7 A Match with the Presumptive Heiress of Parma and Placentia, which would put the Catholic King in Possession of certain rights. 1884 16 180 Columbus..was received by the Catholic King and Queen. 1911 28 Nov. 5/6 At Madrid every class, from the most Catholic King and Royal Family down to the humblest citizen, has shared in the demonstration. 1992 6 379 The Catholic Monarchs determined not to allow Portuguese legal arguments to stand in the way of their claims to the lands discovered by Columbus. 2017 99 427 The purpose was to obtain recognition of Spanish sovereignty from the natives and thus take effective possession of territories which otherwise, in point of law, could not fall under the jurisdiction of the Catholic King. society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > epistle > [noun] > Catholic 1538 James (heading) The catholyke Epistle of the Apostle Iames. 1615 J. Boys 401 To conuert Iewes he wrote principally, but that which is said vnto them, is said vnto vs, and all; in which respect this letter is entituled, The generall or Catholike Epistle of S Iames. 1725 D. Cotes tr. L. E. Du Pin I. v. 69 The Encyclick, Circular, or Catholick Letters, were address'd to all Churches, or to all the Faithful. 1855 B. F. Westcott (1881) 395 It may be inferred that the seven Catholic Epistles were formed into a collection at the close of the third century. 1956 49 159 Sometime between the 4th and 7th centuries, a recension of the N[ew] T[estament], or at least of the Pauline and Catholic epistles, into thought-lines was made. 2008 16 May 25/3 The book explores the texts of the New Testament... It begins with the history of the period..before looking at Paul's letters, the Gospels, Acts.., the Catholic Epistles, and Revelation. society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > [adjective] 1543 J. Bale sig. Ev The catholyke faythe of thys malygnaunt madame, the churche of antichrist, the mother of myschefe. 1554 To remoue them, and place catholike men in their romes. 1602 R. Carew i. f. 71 A matter practised..as well by the reformed, as Catholike Switzers. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 215 in If the Pope would be Head of the Catholique Church, the King would be Head of the Church of England. 1790 E. Burke 30 Whether..the Catholic heir [gave way] when the Protestant was preferred. View more context for this quotation 1860 29 Aug. 2/5 (advt.) An English Catholic young lady wanted, as a teacher au-pair in a Catholic school, in return for lessons in French. 1982 Z. Edgell xvi. 109 She raised him to be a modest Catholic boy. 2016 29 Mar. 45/2 If she survived the operation, she prayed to God she would build a Catholic monastery in the Protestant Southern Bible belt. society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [adjective] > having sympathies with all Christians 1641 F. Rous i. 11 They have not that catholick spirit of love... But such men by likelihood, have a private spirit, by which they love a private part and faction. 1719 D. Defoe 171 If such a Temper was universal, we might be all Catholick Christians, whatever Church or particular Profession we joyn'd to, or joyn'd in. 1750 J. Wesley III. 198 Catholick love is a Catholick Spirit. ?1852 in A. Macklin App. 22 He was..sincerely devoted to the interests of his own denomination, yet of catholic feeling and bearing towards all others. 1874 J. S. Blackie 80 I should recommend specially, as calculated to enthuse a spirit of deep and catholic piety in the souls of the young,—Psalms i. viii. [etc.]. 1926 29 Oct. (6th ed.) 6/5 In preaching..,there was a spirit of poetry and a colour of catholic feeling which gave his pulpit ministration a distinctive character. 1950 16 Dec. 8/3 You..have been spared for so long to continue..to engage in the many good works which your Christian sympathy and catholic spirit have permitted you to support. II. In non-ecclesiastical use. 7. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > universal 1543 J. Bale sig. B.viiiv For catholyck is as moche to saye, as vnyuersall, or admyttynge all. 1664 N. Ingelo v. 129 He hath a good Natural Wit, but that so over-match'd with Pride, that he..declareth frequently that the Universal World is not only obliged to hear him, but to..receive his Doctrines as the indisputable Commands of a Catholick Dictator in Knowledge. 1757 D. Hume iv. 213 A perfect serenity of mind, a recollection of thought, a due attention to the object; if any of these circumstances be wanting our experiment will be fallacious, and we shall be unable to judge of the catholic and universal beauty. 1885 (Weekly ed.) 11 Sept. 7/1 Science is truly catholic, and is bounded only by the universe. 1963 24 277 The traditional search for a ‘langue matrice’, the primitive catholic tongue of mankind, revealed by God to Adam, but lost to man at Babel. 2000 W. C. Mackey xii. 185 All societies have that principle..; thus the logic here is catholic and pan-cultural. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin iii. f. 248 This is to be holden for a catholike principle [L. catholicum theorema]. 1660 R. Sharrock 79 The universal and catholick order of all bulbous plants, is..that about St. James' tyde they be taken out of the ground. 1676 J. Evelyn 45 There is but one Catholic, homogeneous, fluid matter. 1696 J. Edwards i. i. 2 A great Proof of the Catholick Degeneracy of this present Age. 1830 M. T. Sadler II. iv. App. 665 To this catholic law of Nature man is submitted. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > [adjective] > universal 1604 F. Herring Ep. Ded. sig. B2v If any suppose this to be Contentio de lana caprina aut asini vmbra, too base and meane a toy or trifle to be stood vpon, let him remember that it is made no base dredge, but a noble, catholike, & diuine Medicine. 1617 J. Woodall 62 It hath the prime place, for a Catholicke medicine in exulcerations. 1693 F. Slare in (Royal Soc.) 17 906 Tho' Spirit of Wine be a very Catholic Menstruum. 1742 W. Ellis (ed. 4) iv. i. 261 [Water] is the only Catholick Nourishment of all Vegetables, Animals, and Minerals. 1748 D. Hume i. 12 Accurate and just Reasoning is the only catholic Remedy, fitted for all Persons and Dispositions. 1817 Oct. 291 The present distress of the country proceeds entirely from the extreme parsimony of the government; and the only catholic remedy is, for it to increase its levies and its expenditure without sparing. 1845 9 Apr. He proffers his catholic remedy indiscriminately—to the old and the young, the feeble habitual drunkard, [etc.]. 8. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > general or prevalent 1552 Abp. J. Hamilton (title page) The catechisme, that is to say, ane commone and catholik instructioun of the christin people in materis of our catholik faith and religioun. 1632 P. Massinger iv. iii. sig. I2v The pox Sir..Is the more Catholick sickenesse. 1664 J. Evelyn 19 Deep interring of Roots is amongst the Catholick Mistakes. 1719 T. Gordon 10 They always Scorn'd to be barr'd by the trifling Regards of Conscience and Swearing, from the more catholick Pursuits of their Pleasure and Power. the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] > complete or without exception 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes lv. 369 Seeing himselfe well and whole, and in Catholike health [Sp. Catolico de salud], he thought hee could neuer praise God sufficiently for the fauour hee had done him. 1671 J. Dryden iv. 57 Alon. And, How fares my Son-in-Law that lives there? Mel. In Catholique health, Sir. 1884 7 June 3/8 There must be a catholic acceptance of all knowledge, freedom in its discussions, high teaching power and an open door to all. 1973 21 Sept. 1077/2 The catholic acceptance of these attributions [i.e. of paintings to Giuseppe Castiglione] is of a piece with the approach adopted by the authors in their narrative, in which critical argument is not produced, although the qualification of their opinions is continually felt. 9. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > condition or state of being inclusive > [adjective] > inclusive or comprehensive > specifically of taste or feeling 1586 T. Bright iv. 16 The stomach becommeth the most Catholicke parte in all the bodie, carying a more indifferent affection to whatsoeuer is receiued then anie part beside. 1620 J. Parkinson xxvi. 215 Such as are Catholicke obseruers of all naturs store. 1701 10 He is the only Magistrate..Who does Justice indiscriminately to all: Who is Catholic in his Principles, and without any Party Byass in his Practice. 1822 C. Lamb in July 33/2 I bless my stars for a taste so catholic, so unexcluding. 1851 T. Carlyle i. iv. 46 Of these two Universities, Cambridge is decidedly the more catholic (not Roman catholic, but Human catholic). 1878 R. L. Stevenson 103 On these different manifestations, the sun poured its clear and catholic looks. 1921 H. Crane 17 Oct. (1965) 67 I have the apparent brassiness to call myself a person of rather catholic admirations. 2018 28 Oct. (Times2 section) 3/5 His catholic tastes—he likes Verdi as well as Drake—extend to his friends. the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adjective] > affecting all indiscriminately > affecting the whole human race a1631 J. Donne (1954) VII. 51 So are there some..Catholique, universall Psalmes, that apply themselves to all necessities. 1704 J. Swift Disc. Mech. Operat. Spirit i, in 289 In all my Writings, I have had constant Regard..to calculate them for..Mankind in general. And of such Catholick use, I esteem this present Disquisition. 1839 H. Hallam III. v. 453 Catholic poetry, by which I mean that which is good in all ages and countries. 1867 J. A. Froude 363 What was of catholic rather than national interest. 1937 27 Apr. 13/2 Its [i.e. neoprene] resistance to heat and attack from oils makes it of catholic use in the motoring and aircraft industries. 2019 T. Trigoni in G. Morgese et al. iv. 72 De Quincey's work had a catholic appeal for a number of reasons. B. n. 1. society > faith > aspects of faith > Catholicity > [noun] > person c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 277 Efter yat a king be a gude Catholyk jn his persone to godwart. a1525 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun (St Andrews) ix. l. 2701 He was a constante Catholyk, All lollaris he laythit and herrotyk. 1577 W. Fulke (title page) Answere of the Christian Protestant to the proud challenge of a Popish Catholicke. 1579 J. Jones Ep. Ded. sig. Aij It is..of the faithfull, Christian, and Catholike certainly beleeued. 1609 I. Proemial Annot. Some of these bookes..were sometimes doubted of by some Catholiques, and called Apochryphal. 1701 tr. J. Le Clerc 241 An Edict bearing date the 27th. of February... That those who would profess it, should be called Catholics, and the others Hereticks. 1719 D. Defoe 170 I am a Catholick of the Roman Church. 1837 J. H. Newman (1840) III. xiv The Holy Church throughout all the world is broken into many fragments..we are the English Catholics, abroad are the Roman Catholics..elsewhere are the Greek Catholics, and so on. 1860 J. A. Froude (ed. 2) VI. 39 I must again remind my readers of the distinction between Catholic and Papist. Three quarters of the English people were Catholics; that is, they were attached to the hereditary and traditionary doctrines of the Church. 1872 E. A. Freeman v. 102 He [sc. Chlodwig] became..not only a Christian but a Catholic..all the other Teutonic Kings were Arians. 1934 24 Feb. 5/3 I am a Catholic and a Roman Catholic. 2013 J. D. BeDuhn in J. van Oort 6 Augustine, as a Catholic, could be taken by surprise by aspects of Manichaeism he had not full appreciated when he adhered to the system. society > faith > sect > Christianity > Roman Catholicism > person > [noun] 1551 T. Wilson sig. S.viiiv As the Catholikes haue serued vs, for the Sacrament, saiyng, that because God is omnipotent, and maie bee in the Sacrament, by his power really: Ergo he is there really. 1584 in H. Foley (1880) VI. 740 He said..that all English Catholics were bound to pray for the King of Spain. 1650 E. Nicholas (1886) I. 180 That which has been proposed concerninge the Catholics. 1715 in E. E. Estcourt & J. O. Payne (1885) 8 I, Henry Englefield, do declare that I am, by the grace of God, an English Catholic. 1734 I. Watts xi. 42 Promedon was bred in the Protestant Faith, but..being much imprest by the Discourse of an Uncle who was a devout Catholick, he began to waver. 1845 3rd Ser. 79 820 The Irish Catholics would thank [you] infinitely more if [you] were to wipe out that foul blot. 1934 14 Feb. 6/3 His first teacher was a Catholic who had emigrated from Maryland. 2019 26 Aug. 26/1 The Pope urged Catholics to pray that the fires are put out quickly. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > patriarch > [noun] > Armenian 1536 T. Starkey f. 61 Them in Armeny..hadde amonge them their heed, whom they called their catholyke. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus ii. x. sig. Pijv Thei had eightene Bishopries: and one Catholicque that is to saie, one generall bishoppe. a1613 E. Brerewood (1614) xxiv. 171 They acknowledge obedience..to two Patriarchs of their owne: whom they terme Catholiques. 1790 R. Robinson xxxv. 488 The patriarch of Antioch, who hath a colleague called the Maphrian, that is, the Catholick or primate of the East. Phrasessociety > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Irvingism > [noun] > person > collective 1837 32 That no section of the baptized bears the character of the one Holy Catholic Apostolic Church.] 1838 i. 2 An advocate of these principles calls himself a member of ‘The Church’ or as his teachers style it ‘the Catholic Apostolic Church’. 1861 R. Norton 159 In assuming, as our only title and name, that of ‘the Catholic and Apostolic Church’—we arrogate to ourselves nothing, for we do not appropriate it in any exclusive sense. 1966 B. Brophy 309 Indirectly, the return was caused by my mother's mother, who belonged to a sect called by the outside world the Irvingites and by itself the Catholic Apostolic Church. 2009 12 Dec. 1381/1 His father was a minister in the Catholic Apostolic Church, founded by the preacher Edward Irving. Compounds1778 3 July (heading) On the Catholic Bill. 1805 Ld. Hawkesbury (title) Speech in the House of Lords, 10th of May on the Catholic Petition. 1878 S. Walpole II. vii. 145 (note) Persons in favour of emancipation were classed as Catholic statesmen. 1929 P. Hughes iii. ii. 197 A re-alignment in English political life suddenly brought uncertainty to an end. With that re-alignment the Catholic Question emerges. 2021 (Nexis) 12 Sept. From a very young age, Maria was an early supporter of Catholic Emancipation. 1667 M. Mead 27 How the most Catholick-spirited Christian can well please both, is not easie to conceive. 1837 9 Feb. 95/4 Perhaps the most catholic-minded Christian upon earth has more bigotry in him that he is aware of. 1877 2 June 704/2 Dr. MacEwen's catholic-mindedness is well illustrated by the reply he made to his son. 1886 J. Ruskin I. x. 330 I endeavoured to entertain my Spanish-born, Paris-bred, and Catholic-hearted mistress with my own views upon the subjects of the Spanish Armada, the Battle of Waterloo, and the doctrine of Transubstantiation. 1919 22 Nov. 495/2 I am a mild and catholic-spirited person. 2010 1 Mar. 20/1 There are many Catholic-minded Anglicans like me who have wondered..whether we should become Roman Catholics. C3. 1962 8 Apr. 6/5 If this total anonymity prevailed, then the reader..would not think, ‘If only Graham Greene weren't a convert, he wouldn't be obsessed with Catholic guilt’; he would instead notice and absorb an unusual point of view about religion. 1990 A. M. Greeley xvi. 281 Madonna..has repeatedly described the importance of Catholicism in her childhood and the remnants of Catholic guilt that continue to haunt her life—‘If you enjoy something it must be wrong.’ 2020 (Nexis) 30 May c3 I sometimes work from home... But I always have this niggle at the back of my mind, I guess it could be Catholic guilt, that people might be expecting me at the office. society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > pope > [noun] > office of 1570 J. Foxe (rev. ed.) II. 927/1 The proud, cruell, & bloudy rage of the catholique seate. 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