CPage 137
- English Word Catechismal Definition Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechetical.
- English Word Catechist Definition One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.
- English Word Catechistic Definition Alt. of Catechistical
- English Word Catechistical Definition Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.
- English Word Catechize Definition See Catechise.
- English Word Catechu Definition A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.
- English Word Catechuic Definition Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.
- English Word Catechumen Definition One who is receiving rudimentary instruction in the doctrines of Christianity; a neophyte; in the primitive church, one officially recognized as a Christian, and admitted to instruction preliminary to admission to full membership in the church.
- English Word Catechumenate Definition The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.
- English Word Catechumenical Definition Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
- English Word Catechumenist Definition A catechumen.
- English Word Categorematic Definition Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.
- English Word Categorical Definition Of or pertaining to a category.
- English Word Categorical Definition Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
- English Word Categorically Definition Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
- English Word Categoricalness Definition The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.
- English Word Categories Definition of Category
- English Word Categorist Definition One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.
- English Word Categorize Definition To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
- English Word Category Definition One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.