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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.

des 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.

A disease characterized by severe nervous symptoms, dependent upon the presence of the constituents of the bile in the blood.

Promoting the discharge of bile from the system. -- n.

A salt of cholic acid; as, sodium cholate.

The gall bladder.

The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as for the removal of a gallstone.

A treatise on the bile and bilary organs. Dunglison.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, bile; as, choleic acid.

cibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

ntestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera. Asiatic cholera, a malignant and rapidly fatal disease, originating in Asia and frequently epidemic in the more filthy sections of other lands, to which the germ or specific poison may have been carried. It is characterize…

Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.

Abounding with, or producing choler, or bile. Dryden.

In a choleric manner; angrily.