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roman catholic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun roman catholic has 2 senses
- roman catholic(n = noun.person) Array - a member of the Roman Catholic Church; Array is a member of church of rome, roman catholic, roman catholic church, roman church, western church
- roman catholic(n = noun.group) church of rome, roman catholic church, roman church, western church - the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy; Array is a kind of catholic church
is a kind of catholic
has particulars: papist, ultramontane
has parts: rome, curia, college of cardinals, sacred college
Adjective roman catholic has 1 sense
- roman catholic(a = adj.pert) papist, papistic, papistical, popish, r.c., roman, romanist, romish - of or relating to or supporting Romanism; "the Roman Catholic Church"
OXFORD DICTIONARY
roman catholic, adj. & n.
--adj. of the part of the Christian Church acknowledging the Pope as its head.
--n. a member of this Church.
--adj. of the part of the Christian Church acknowledging the Pope as its head.
--n. a member of this Church.
Derivative
Roman Catholicism n.
Etymology
17th-c. transl. L (Ecclesia) Romana Catholica (et Apostolica), app. orig. as a conciliatory term: see ROMAN, CATHOLIC
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