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Universal or general; as, the catholic faith. Men of other countries [came] to bear their part in so great and catholic a war. Southey.

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.

The spiritual head of the Armenian church, who resides 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 member of the Church of England who contends for its catholic character; more specifically, a High Churchman.

pt many doctrines and practices which they maintain were those of the primitive, or true, Catholic Church, of which they consider the Church of England to be the lineal descendant.

A universal remedy; -- name formerly to a purgative electuary.

The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven.

One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.

vestment of white linen, reaching to the feet, an enveloping the person; -- in the Roman Catholic church, worn by those in holy orders when officiating at mass. It was formerly worn, at least by clerics, in daily life.

The second day of November; a feast day of the Roman Catholic church, on which supplications are made for the souls of the faithful dead.

in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A.

worn at first on the head, but now about the neck and shoulders, by priests of the Roman Catholic Church while saying Mass.

A member of the Church of England. Whether Catholics, Anglicans, or Calvinists. Burke.

erned by an apostle; specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in the Roman Catholic belief, the pope is the successor of St. Peter, the prince of the apostles, and the only apostle who has successors in the apostolic office. -- Apostolical succession, the regular and uninterrupted transmission of minist…