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Catchword n.

Among theatrical performers, the last word of the preceding speaker, which reminds one that he is to speak next; cue.

(Print.) The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.

A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as, the catchword of a political party, etc.

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"Catchword" Quotes from Famous Books

... an utterly unintelligible form of childishly clipped Latin, sounding, however, sweet and birdlike from the very liberties the little memory had taken in twisting its mellifluous words into a rhythm of her own. And there was catchword enough for Richard to recognize and follow it, with bonnet ...

— The Prince and the Page • Charlotte M. Yonge

... innumerable objections would have arisen. Patriotism does not always wear the same mantle, or point in the same direction. It accommodates itself to the peculiarities of different countries and forms of government. Sometimes it is a holy principle—sometimes a mere party catchword with no more real meaning than can be attached to the ...

— Report on the Condition of the South • Carl Schurz

... struggle that must ensue, owing to the equality of the opposing forces, was a remarkably early one. Party feeling and religious animosity, as is usual, ran very high, each having been made the mere stalking-horse or catchword of the rival candidates, who cared nothing, or at least very little, about the masses on either side, provided always that they could turn them ...

— The Emigrants Of Ahadarra - The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two • William Carleton

... profession. The loaves and fishes bulked largely in their calculations, and he heard a distinguished man say things at one of his meetings which Raymond knew that it was impossible he could believe. For example, it was clearly a popular catchword that party politics had become archaic, and that a time was near when party would be forgotten in a larger and nobler spirit. Speakers openly declared that great changes were in sight, and the constitution must be modified; but, privately, they ...

— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts

... Attempt after attempt had proved futile to win by strikes the demands of these unskilled workers. The men were quite at the end of their resources, when finally they hit upon the plan of "lying down on the job" or "soldiering." As a catchword they adopted the Scotch phrase ca'canny, to go slow or be careful not to do too much. As an example they pointed to the Chinese coolies who met a refusal of increased wages by cutting off a few inches from their shovels on the ...

— The Armies of Labor - Volume 40 in The Chronicles Of America Series • Samuel P. Orth

... who has true perception, the "Spirit of Nature" speaks powerfully in the facts currently expressed by the catchword, "struggle for existence," etc.; but not in the opinions which modern science deduces from them. In the first statement lies the reason why natural science is attracting more and more widespread attention. But it follows from the second ...

— Christianity As A Mystical Fact - And The Mysteries of Antiquity • Rudolf Steiner

... the sweeping manner in which this new maxim could be applied to all the hesitations that had confused her. All her meditations heretofore had brought her nothing but uncertainty, but this new catchword of incessant activity drove her forward too resistlessly to allow any reflections as to whether she were going in the right direction. She yielded herself absolutely to that ideal of conduct which had been urged upon her all her ...

— The Squirrel-Cage • Dorothy Canfield

Words linked to "Catchword" : guide word, watchword, catch phrase, cry, shibboleth, war cry, guideword, expression, motto, battle cry, mantra, slogan, saying