Catholic
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2.3
- noun
- /ˈkæθəlɪk/
:
católico
- As a lifelong Catholic, she attended Mass every Sunday without fail.
- Roman Catholics
- practicing Catholics
- nonpracticing Catholics
A lot of them were Catholics, you know?
- A lot of them were Catholics, you know?
- The Croatians are Catholics, the Serbians are Orthodox.
- You know, maybe you get Lutheran, you get Catholic, Episcopalian.
- Is he like Christian, Catholic, probs Jewish?
- Where we've just agreed, OK, he's a Catholic, she's a Jew, he he's a Muslim.
- But back then, Jew, Catholic, it just wasn't done.
- Have you ever heard that the Apocrypha with Catholics, they've left books out of the Bible?
- And what, what actually is our role as Catholics, as Christians baptized?
- So the loyalists didn't realize that they thought, sure, Catholics don't have guns.
- No, we always looked at Catholics just smoking and drinking and then right.
- Jews, Catholics and free blacks dubbed the black poor.
- And I'd, I'd get rid of the Catholics first.
Examples
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When the judge asks her if she is a Catholic, she responds that she goes to church every Sunday.
Academic text (2011) -
I also want to apologize to all, all Catholics for earlier.
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Someone said, "You were raised a Catholic.
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This is the worst kind of sin a Catholic can commit.
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I'm not much of a Catholic.
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A lot of them were Catholics, you know?
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A bit dreary, I thought, but Grace was Roman Catholic; maybe that explained it.
Fiction book (1992) -
How many Catholics are there in Afghanistan?
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I'm a Catholic and I don't want to hurt anybody!
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Rochat was a devout Catholic, so on that occasion, Father Gamot had to keep quiet.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
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2.3
A person who belongs to the Christian church led by the Pope
A person who believes in Jesus Christ and follows his teachings
Compounds
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3.7
A Christian church led by the Pope in the Vatican that has its own teachings and services
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9.0
A Christian who belongs to a church that left the Roman Catholic Church because they rejected the pope's authority
The Spanish rulers Ferdinand V and Isabella I who united Spain and promoted Catholicism
- Archaic
A historical measure of length equal to the length of a pendulum that takes one second to swing
A person in the Anglican Church who values its Catholic traditions and practices
A group of churches that left the Roman Catholic Church over the pope's authority
A Christian church also called the Eastern Orthodox Church that follows Byzantine rites
Surface Forms
Etymology
Catholic comes from the old Greek word katholikos, which is built on holos meaning 'whole' or 'all'. It originally meant 'for everyone', so a Catholic person is a member of a church that presents itself as for all people.