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catholic

/kath-uh-lik, kath-lik/US // ˈkæθ ə lɪk, ˈkæθ lɪk //UK // (ˈkæθəlɪk, ˈkæθlɪk) //

天主教会,天主教徒,天主教,天主教的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : broad or wide-ranging in tastes, interests, or the like; having sympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal.
    • : universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.
    • : pertaining to the whole Christian body or church.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.all-embracing, general

Examples

  • Although she and her siblings were raised Catholic, she was active at Israel Metropolitan Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in the Petworth neighborhood, Bowser’s statement said.

  • Strom was born blind in 1946 and grew up in a Catholic family that moved from Louisiana to Kentucky.

  • All-Protestant counties had literacy rates nearly 20 percentage points higher than all-Catholic counties.

  • Kelpinski’s ad in the Blade, among other things, mentioned he had a “Catholic background,” which he later learned caught Bartman’s attention.

  • After getting degrees from Georgetown and Catholic universities, Anderson spent his career as a speech and language pathologist at Gallaudet University before working in a similar role for Montgomery County Public Schools for more than 20 years.

  • After years at the head of a parochial school classroom, he could no longer distinguish one blond Irish Catholic kid from another.

  • The family was English Catholic and Alfred, like his brother and sister, was raised in the faith, educated by Jesuits.

  • A quarter of a century later, the new head of the Roman Catholic Church claimed that those days had been consigned to history.

  • Laylah and her older sister, Destiny, attended the school affiliated with Our Lady of Good Hope Roman Catholic Church.

  • Hegazy, the daughter of an Egyptian-Muslim father and an Italian-Catholic mother, grew up in New York City.

  • The Roman Catholic priesthood, to a man, would lend to it the influence of all its spiritual authority.

  • Just a few priests ordained in the Roman Catholic Church have joined the schismatic cause.

  • There were grades of rank among the priesthood; but not more so than in the Roman Catholic Church.

  • He would also abolish the oaths in that establishment, distinguishing Roman Catholic office-bearers from Protestants.

  • The Roman Catholic chapels, and the ways of access to them, were also treated as "public works."