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Catholic. [Obs.]

The state or quality of being catholic or universal; catholicity. Jer. Taylor.

The state or quality of being catholic; universality.

To make or to become catholic or Roman Catholic.

In a catholic manner; generally; universally. Sir L. Cary.

The quality of being catholic; universality; catholicity.

A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides at Etchmiadzin, Russia, and has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over, and consecrates the holy oil for, the Armenians of Russia, Turkey, and Persia, including the Patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, and Sis.

Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion. Faraday.

nate flowers) in the chestnut, oak, hickory, etc. -- so called from its resemblance to a cat's tail. See Illust. of Ament.

Like a cat; stealthily; noiselessly.

A little cat; a kitten. "Cat nor catling." Drummond.

A red clay from the Upper Missouri region, used by the Indians for their pipes.

A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

A remedy that purges by alvine discharges.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the stern old Roman, Cato the Censor; severe; inflexible.

See Catopter.

A reflecting optical glass or instrument; a mirror. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to catoptrics; produced by reflection. Catoptric light, a light in which the rays are concentrated by reflectors into a beam visible at a distance.