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catholic
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catholic when uncapitalized

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  • La Vendee is a grand, catholic uprising.   (source)
    catholic = universal
  • Every book supplies its time with one good word; every municipal law, every trade, every folly of the day, and the generic catholic genius who is not afraid or ashamed to owe his originality to the originality of all, stands with the next age as the recorder and embodiment of his own.   (source)
    catholic = broad in scope
  • Why not here, and perhaps elsewhere, plant deeply and for all time centres of learning and living, colleges that yearly would send into the life of the South a few white men and a few black men of broad culture, catholic tolerance, and trained ability, joining their hands to other hands, and giving to this squabble of the Races a decent and dignified peace?   (source)
    catholic = inclusive or a wide range of ideas
  • Or, going one step farther, with those striking remarks to which Naphta had treated Pater Unterpertinger in their colloquy about Hegel and the "Catholicity" of that state philosopher, about how "politics" and "Catholicism" were psychologically related and formed a single objective reality?†   (source)
  • No doubt the feat was easy to Mr. Utterson; for he was undemonstrative at the best, and even his friendship seemed to be founded in a similar catholicity of good-nature.†   (source)
  • Whether due to his general bent for paradox or out of courtesy, he called Hegel a "Catholic" thinker; and in response to the priest's smiling question about the basis for this comment, inasmuch as Hegel was actually the state philosopher of Prussia and generally considered a Protestant, Leo had replied: the very term "state philosopher" confirmed he was correct in pointing to Hegel's Catholicity in the religious sense, if not, of course, in regard to Church dogmatics.†   (source)
  • The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.   (source)
    catholic = universal
  • "I don't know what to think," answered Sancho, "not being as well read as your worship in errant writings; but for all that I venture to say and swear that these apparitions that are about us are not quite catholic."   (source)
    catholic = universally accepted as true
  • "I carry my prog-basket and this bota hanging to the saddle-bow, whatever they may say; and it is such an object of worship with me, and I love it so, that  there is hardly a moment but I am kissing and embracing it over and over again;" and so saying he thrust it into Sancho's hands, who raising it aloft pointed to his mouth, gazed at the stars for a quarter of an hour; and when he had done drinking let his head fall on one side, and giving a deep sigh, exclaimed, "Ah, whoreson rogue, how catholic it is!"   (source)
    catholic = universal in appeal
  • Sancho Panza was touched by Master Pedro's words, and said to him, "Don't weep and lament, Master Pedro; you break my heart; let me tell you my master, Don Quixote, is so catholic and scrupulous a Christian that, if he can make out that he has done you any wrong, he will own it, and be willing to pay for it and make it good, and something over and above."   (source)
    catholic = consistent (or universal in application)
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  • Lisa was wild when I met her though, like all them other Catholic school girls.   (source)
    catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
  • First of all, she wasn't Catholic.   (source)
  • Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak out because I was not a Catholic.   (source)
  • She may soon be the youngest nonmartyr saint ever beatified by the Catholic Church.   (source)
  • Apparently, 'charity, hope, and faith' are also the names of three martyred Catholic saints.   (source)
  • All the kids around North Third Street went to the Catholic school at St. Mary's Church, about five blocks away.   (source)
  • Louie, whose parents had tried to raise him Catholic, hadn't gone near church since one Sunday in his boyhood, when a priest had punished him for tardiness by grabbing him by the ear and dragging him out.   (source)
  • Some ladies carried their salvation gloves in their purse in case they ran into a Catholic unexpectedly.   (source)
  • Maybe you ought to think about Catholic school.   (source)
    catholic = of the Roman Catholic faith
  • They quarreled over it each time, not because she didn't want you baptized, but because she didn't want you baptized Catholic.   (source)
    catholic = the Roman Catholic Church
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  • She said she was Scotch and Irish, not the Catholic Irish, of course, meaning her grandmothers were.   (source)
  • Francois and I had agreed that we would be married both in the Catholic Church and in a traditional Persian ceremony.   (source)
  • Among those assembled were two French journalists, a Swiss diplomat, three Uzbek fur traders, a representative of the Roman Catholic Church, and a repatriated opera tenor with his family of five.   (source)
  • I admired my uncle Dan above all other men, but when he spoke of his Catholic acceptance of evolutionary theory, my admiration became tinged with suspicion.   (source)
  • One day, Lale received a visit in prison from a Catholic priest.   (source)
  • "According to the papers, your parents were Catholic but you were unbaptized," Mrs. Dunningham said.   (source)
  • Maybe she'd shift me to a school closer to home, maybe a public or Catholic school, but not a military school.   (source)
  • Shortly afterward, Langdon received a postcard from an old friend—the Catholic Bishop of Philadelphia.   (source)
  • I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much.   (source)
  • Two days later, we buried my sister in the Catholic graveyard down near the powwow ground.   (source)
  • Martinez is a devout Catholic.   (source)
  • He doesn't have a thing but what we give him for picking and what he gets cutting firewood for Thorsens and those Catholic people—who are they?   (source)
  • It just happens to be a Catholic school.   (source)
  • He thought that Kennedy was religious, and—incredibly—he didn't mind that Kennedy was a Catholic.   (source)
  • She was a fervent Catholic with a French accent.   (source)
  • The Riches, the Patrick Smiths, the Walkers, not even those Catholic Thibodeaux with them seven kids.   (source)
  • Ages ago, when just being a Catholic could get you hung from a tree, clergyfolk came here seeking refuge.   (source)
  • Or go inside a Catholic church.   (source)
  • There were two elementary schools uptown, one Catholic, one public, for whites; and the same back of town for colored.   (source)
  • The Catholic high school cost a lot, and Papa said nobody went to public school unless you wanted to turn out bad.   (source)
  • She could tell it was Latin, but she wasn't sure why her hopefully future boyfriend was suddenly chanting like a Catholic priest.   (source)
  • Betty, who was known to be a Catholic, crossed herself as the little crowd huddled closer to the entrance.   (source)
  • He says he's not a proper Catholic which means he's doomed so he can do anything he bloody well likes.   (source)
  • At the Catholic school I attended when I was eight and nine years old, problems were solved by talking them out.   (source)
  • Miss Ryan had come to Kennet from a Catholic school and taken over the art department from two ex-hippies who had been fired when the kiln exploded.   (source)
  • She was glad to leave, but insisted that she would not reconvert, and for the rest of her days remained a Roman Catholic.   (source)
  • The Catholic Church, through its Inquisition, is famous for cultivating Lucifer as the arch-fiend, but the Church's enemies relied no less upon the Old Boy to keep the human mind enthralled.   (source)
  • When my Catholic classmates recited their prayers, we Jews were required to stand and be silent.   (source)
  • "As a matter of fact, she's Catholic," Hannah said.   (source)
  • Or one of the Catholic priests from St. Ignatius that Mrs. Barbour had taken up with after Andy and Mr. Barbour died?   (source)
  • The lessons about Chiapas are from Enrique, other migrants, and Father Arturo Francisco Herrera Gonzalez, a Catholic priest who helps migrants at the Parroquia de San Vicente Ferrer in Juchitan, Oaxaca.   (source)
  • And both of us Catholic, your mother a devout Catholic who never misses mass on Sunday or on holydays.   (source)
  • Mexicans were mostly traditional and Catholic.   (source)
  • This time the messenger was a well-known Catholic bishop who had been doing missionary work when he ran into the rebels.   (source)
  • To the Consul's left sat Father Lenar Hoyt, a priest of the old-style Christian sect known as Catholic.   (source)
  • After Conor's arrival, everyone we knew—with the exception of my very Catholic parents who were praying for dozens of little Grogans—assumed we were done having children.   (source)
  • His uncle, a Catholic priest, had to flee from the Gestapo after the German invasion in the autumn of 1939.   (source)
  • Sor Asuncion said we should all resolve this as young ladies in the holy Catholic and Apostolic church.   (source)
  • She opened up the phone book, ran her finger down the list of private and Catholic schools, called the schools, found out which ones had scholarships, and drove me up to one.   (source)
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson was a Unitarian minister for a spell, while Gerard Manley Hopkins was a Catholic priest.   (source)
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