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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.

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 by…

See Chigoe.

See Coalgoose.

To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert.

One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor.

A native or inhabitant of Galicia, in Spain; a Galician.

loth, with a hood attached, worn by the Greeks and others in the Levant. [Written also griego.]

Pertaining to, or originated by, some person named Gregory, especially one of the popes of that name. Gregorian calendar, the calendar as reformed by Pope Gregory XIII. in 1582, including the method of adjusting the leap years so as to harmonize the civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of East…

See Greggoe.

Belonging to the same category of individuality; -- a morphological term applied to organisms so related.

Pertaining to the literature of law.

One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious. "Valor misbegot." Shak.

Business; occupation. [Obs.] Bentley.

The quality of being negotiable or transferable by indorsement.