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noun

Cathedral n. The principal church in a diocese, so called because in it the bishop has his official chair (Cathedra) or throne.

adjective

Cathedral adj.

Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service.

Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative. "Now, what solemnity can be more required for the pope to make a cathedral determination of an article!"

Resembling the aisles of a cathedral; as, cathedral walks.

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Etymology of 'Cathedral'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... marrying, remained there. But the party reached Dapitan with its original number, for they were joined by a good-looking mestiza from the South who was unofficially connected with one of the canons of the Manila cathedral. ...

— Lineage, Life, and Labors of Jose Rizal, Philippine Patriot • Austin Craig

... Amberley Castle Stopham Bridge Byworth Petworth Church Petworth House Saddler's Row, Petworth Cowdray The Granary, Cowdray Market Square, Midhurst Midhurst Church East Lavant Felpham Boxgrove Priory Church Chichester Cathedral Chichester Palace and Cathedral Bell Tower, Chichester Chichester Cross St. Mary's Hospital, Chichester Fishbourne Manor Fishbourne Church Bosham Bosham Mill Bosham, The Strand Harting Cowdray Cottage Middle House, Mayfield High Street, ...

— Seaward Sussex - The South Downs from End to End • Edric Holmes

... 1627, and said to have been a choir-boy in Salisbury Cathedral. He was the first person to announce the death of Cromwell to Charles II., and at the Restoration he was made Clerk of the Green Cloth, and afterwards Paymaster of the Forces. He was knighted in 1665. He married Elizabeth, daughter of ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... Mr. Blades has a good deal to say about water, and the harm it has been allowed to do in our collegiate and cathedral libraries. With really creditable composure he writes: 'Few old libraries in England are now so thoroughly neglected as they were thirty years ago. The state of many of our collegiate and cathedral libraries was at that time simply ...

— In the Name of the Bodleian and Other Essays • Augustine Birrell

... the palaces of the earth can offer. From the long monotonous architectural lines of the Hradschin, imposing from its massiveness and its imperial situation, and with the dome and minarets of the cathedral clustering behind them, the eye swept across the fertile valley, through which the rapid, yellow Moldau courses, to the opposite line of cliffs crested with the half imaginary fortress-palaces of the Wyscherad. There, in the mythical legendary ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

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