Catechumen
(Cat"e*chu`men) n. [L. catechunenus, Gr. instructed, from . See Catechise.] (Eccl.)
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.
Catechumenate
(Cat`e*chu"men*ate) n. The state or condition of a catechumen or the time during which
one is a catechumen.
Catechumenical
(Cat`e*chu*men"i*cal) a. Of or pertaining to catechumens; as, catechumenical instructions.
Catechumenist
(Cat`e*chu"men*ist), n. A catechumen. Bp. Morton.
Categorematic
(Cat`e*gor`e*mat"ic) a. [Gr. predicate. See Category.] (Logic.) Capable of being employed
by itself as a term; — said of a word.
Categorical
(Cat`e*gor"ic*al) a.
1. Of or pertaining to a category.
2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as,
a categorical proposition, or answer.
The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things
seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal.
I. Taylor.
Categorically
(Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ly), adv. Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically.
Categoricalness
(Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ness), n. The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute. A.
Marvell.
Categorist
(Cat"e*go*rist) n. One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies. Emerson.
Categorize
(Cat"e*go*rize) v. t. To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Category
(Cat"e*go*ry) n.; pl. Categories [L. categoria, Gr. fr. to accuse, affirm, predicate; down,
against + to harrangue, assert, fr. assembly.]
1. (Logic.) 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.
The categories or predicaments — the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin
language — were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of
being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the most extensive classes into which things
could be distributed.
J. S. Mill.
2. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same category.
De Quincey.
Catel
(Cat"el) n. [See Chattel.] Property; — often used by Chaucer in contrast with rent, or income.
"For loss of catel may recovered be,
But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he.
Chaucer.
Catelectrode
(Cat`e*lec"trode) n. [Pref. cata + elecrode.] (Physics) The negative electrode or pole of
a voltaic battery. Faraday.
Catelectrotonic
(Cat`e*lec`tro*ton"ic) a. (Physics) Relating to, or characterized by, catelectrotonus.
