catholic

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈkæ.θ(ə.)lɪk/|/ˈkɑː.θ(ə.)lɪk/    美 /ˈkæ.θ(ə.)lɪk/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Universal; all-encompassing.
    — The church is catholic, universal, so are all her actions; all that she does, belongs to all.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Catholic. alt-of
  3. Common or prevalent; especially universally prevalent. obsolete
  4. All-embracing. usually
    — […]a knowledge which should not only know at what particular spot in these mounds it should excavate, but, having excavated, would understand how to sift and use these materials properly, with a profoundly pious and reverential mind,—a knowledge not narrow, sectarian, one-sided, but catholic, human, large, one to which Homer and Horace and Goethe and Tennyson should no be more foreign than Church Fathers, and archæologists, palæographers and antiquaries[…]
  5. Universally applicable. obsolete
  6. Of universal human interest or use.
    — And as the whole booke of Psalmes is Oleum efjusum, (as the Spouse speaks of the name of Christ) an Oyntment powred out upon all sorts of sores, A Searcloth that souples all bruises, A Balme that searches all wounds; so are there some certaine Psalmes, that are Imperiall Psalmes, that command over all affections, and spread themselves over all occasions, Catholique, universall Psalmes, that apply themselves to all necessities.

词形变化

more catholic comparative most catholic superlative Catholic alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
catholical catholically catholic creditor catholic epistle catholicise catholicism catholicity catholicly catholicness uncatholic

词源

From Old French catholique, from Latin catholicus, from Ancient Greek καθολικός (katholikós, “universal”), from κατά (katá, “according to”) + ὅλος (hólos, “whole”).
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