Helen Fenton

Catgut: Definition and part of speech

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Catgut

  1. n. A sort of linen or canvas, with wide interstices.
  2. n. A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Catharist: Definition and part of speech

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Catharist

  1. n. One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; — applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Categorical: Definition and part of speech

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Categorical

  1. a. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to a category.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Categorically: Definition and part of speech

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Categorically

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

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Category: Definition and part of speech

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Category

  1. n. Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; as, we are both in the same category.
  2. n. 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 word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.