CATEGORICAL

a.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Of or pertaining to a category.

2.
a.

Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.