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Of or pertaining to a category.

Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A. Marvell.

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament. The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration…

Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income. "For loss of catel may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. Chaucer.

The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery. Faraday.

Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.

The condition of increased irritability of a nerve in the region of the cathode or negative electrode, on the passage of a current of electricity through it.

es of things connected with each other. I have . . . in no case sought to construct those catenæ of games, which it seems now the fashion of commentators to link together. C. J. Ellicott.

The curve formed by a rope or chain of uniform density and perfect flexibility, hanging freely between two points of suspension, not in the same vertical line.

Relating to a chain; like a chain; as, a catenary curve.

To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.

nnection of links or union of parts, as in a chain; a regular or connected series. See Concatenation. Sir T. Browne.

Consisting of little links or chains.

A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Diagonal. [Colloq.]

A remote relation. See Quater-cousin. Shak.

A Highland robber: a kind of irregular soldier. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.