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Cardinal   /kˈɑrdənəl/  /kˈɑrdɪnəl/   Listen
Cardinal

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes.
2.
The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order.  Synonym: cardinal number.
3.
A variable color averaging a vivid red.  Synonym: carmine.
4.
Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.  Synonyms: cardinal grosbeak, Cardinalis cardinalis, redbird, Richmondena Cardinalis.
adjective
1.
Serving as an essential component.  Synonyms: central, fundamental, key, primal.  "The central cause of the problem" , "An example that was fundamental to the argument" , "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
2.
Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order.  Antonym: ordinal.



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"Cardinal" Quotes from Famous Books



... bear a part. They were essentially struggles for sectional equality or ascendancy—for the maintenance or the destruction of that balance of power or equipoise between North and South, which was early recognized as a cardinal principle in our Federal system. It does not follow that both parties to this contest were wholly right or wholly wrong in their claims. The determination of the question of right or wrong must be ...
— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis
... my becoming assistant editor to the editor of the Pall Mall Gazette seemed at that time about as remote as that of the Moderator of the Free Church of Scotland receiving a cardinal's hat from the Pope of Rome. Nevertheless, no sooner had Mr. Gladstone been seated in power than Mr. George Smith handed over the Pall Mall Gazette to his son-in-law, Mr. Henry Yates Thompson. Mr. Greenwood departed to found and edit the St. James' Gazette, and Mr. Morley became editor. ...
— Real Ghost Stories • William T. Stead
... a cardinal-red damasse silk, and heavy gold jewelry, seized upon the clerical pair instantly as her own especial prey, because they were new acquaintances, who had not heard the story of her marriage, her robbery and her desertion by her husband, ...
— Her Mother's Secret • Emma D. E. N. Southworth
... Sunday. The seats of Squantown Sunday-school were even more crowded than usual; the girls' side looking like a flower-bed in its variety and brilliancy of color. Bertie Sanderson was there in her new silk,—a brilliant cardinal,—looking strangely unsuitable to the season; Gretchen, the German, in her woolen petticoat and jacket, which she had not been long enough in the country to discard for summer attire; the other girls in spring suits, and Katie Robertson in a lovely pale-blue ...
— Katie Robertson - A Girls Story of Factory Life • Margaret E. Winslow
... planted in the esteem of his countrymen, and by bringing him before a prudent legate he might induce him to retract and the trouble be ended; if not, it would be a less disturbing way of getting possession of the accused man. Orders were therefore issued for Luther to appear before Cardinal Cajetan ...
— Luther and the Reformation: - The Life-Springs of Our Liberties • Joseph A. Seiss


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