अंग्रेजी अंग्रेजी शब्दकोश

Alt. of Catechistical

Of or pertaining to a catechist or to a catechism.

See Catechise.

A dry, brown, astringent extract, obtained by decoction and evaporation from the Acacia catechu, and several other plants growing in India. It contains a large portion of tannin or tannic acid, and is used in medicine and in the arts. It is also known by the names terra japonica, cutch, gambier, etc.

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

One who is receiving rudimentary 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 state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which one is a catechumen.

Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.

A catechumen.

Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.

Of or pertaining to a category.

Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.

Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.

The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.

of Category

One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.

To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.

One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.

Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.

Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.