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Pertaining to, produced by, or attending, catarrh; of the nature of catarrh.

Of a pertaining to a catastrophe. B. Powell.

Of or pertaining to a catechism, having the form of questions and answers; catechical.

Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism. Dr. H. More.

Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.

Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.

Of or pertaining to a category.

Of or pertaining to the purgative principle of senna, as cathartic acid.

Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.

Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act. Catholic epistles, the espistles of the apostles which are addressed to all the faithful, and not to a particular church; being those of James, Peter, Jude, and John.

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

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

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.

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a tail; having a tail-like appendage. The male widow-bird, remarkable for his caudal plumes. Darwin. Caudal fin (Zoöl.), the terminal fin (or "tail") of a fish.

Growing immediately on a caulis; of or pertaining to a caulis.

Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.

Of or pertaining to the party of King Charles I. "An old Cavalier family." Beaconsfleld.

Of or pertaining to cawk; like cawk.

Of or pertaining to cedar.