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ry 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.

The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority. Ex cathedra Etym: [L., from the chair], in the exercise of one's office; with authority. The Vatican Council declares that the Pope, is infallible "when he speaks ex cathedra." Addis & Arnold's Cath. Dict.

The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

d to the press, and to forbid their publication if they contain anything obnoxious; -- an official in some European countries.

An official registration of the number of the people, the value of their estates, and other general statistics of a country.

An official seat, as of a chief magistrate or a judge, but esp. that of a professor; hence, the office itself. The chair of a philosophical school. Whewell. A chair of philology. M. Arnold.

or rooms where a lawyer transacts business; a room or rooms where a judge transacts such official business as may be done out of court.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

A clergyman who is officially atteched to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

An official administering a prefecture of China; a prefect, supervising the civil business of the hsiens or districts comprised in his fu (which see).

An official having charge of a hsien, or administrative district, in China; a district magistrate, responsible for good order in his hsien (which see), and having jurisdiction in its civil and criminal cases.

A messenger or servant wearing an official badge. [Anglo- Indian]

a governmental office where business is delayed by passing through the hands of different officials.

Characterised by circumlocution; periphrastic. Shenstone. The officials set to work in regular circumlocutory order. Chambers's Journal.

An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.

To call upon officially or authoritatively to appear, as before a court; to summon. The cited dead, Of all past ages, to the general doom Shall hasten. Milton. Cited by finger of God. De Quincey.

Pertaining to civic life and affairs, in distinction from military, ecclesiastical, or official state.

A licensed or official coal measurer in London. See Meter. Simmonds.

lose-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape. (b) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England. [Writting also quoif.] From point and saucy ermine down To the plain coif and russet gown. H. Brocke. The judges, . . . althout they are not of the first magnitud…

To assume official station or duties; as, when Lincoln came in.