catalogue (katalog)

[Also recently cat a log; D. kataloog = G. catalog, katalog = Dan. Sw. katalog Ru . katalogů , catalogue Pr. cathalogue Sp. catálogo IMG:content-3255.png:[blocks in formation] The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: Dictionary IMG:content-3257.png:[blocks in formation] of a college, of the stars, or of a museum or a catalytical (kat-a-lit'i-kal), a. Same as cat a library. See card - catalogue. Myself could show a catalogue of doubts, never yet imagined or questioned. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 21. She is to be added to the catalogue of republics, the inscription upon whose ruin is, "They were, but they are not. Story , Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. Ugly catalogues of sins and oaths and drunkenne and brutality. catalogue of books, paintings, Froude , Sketches, p. 47. Catalogue raisonné (F., literally reasoned catalogue), cording to their subjects, usually with more or le full comments or explanations. Syn. List, Catalogue. List means a mere enumeration of individual persons or arti cles, while catalogue properly supposes some description, with the names in a certain order. Thus we a subscription list, but of the catalogue of a museum or a library. catalogue (k (kat'a-log), og), v. t.; pret. and pp. cat a logued, ppr. cataloguing. [ It [Scripture] cannot, as it were, be mapped or its contents catalogued. J. H. Newman, Development of Christ. Doct. cataloguer (kat'a-log-er), n . [ catalogue + -er1; = F. catalogueur .] One who arranges and prepares a catalogue, as of books, plants, stars, etc. The supposed cases of disappearance [of stars] arose from cataloguers accidentally recording stars in positions where none existed. Newcomb and Holden , Astron., p. 446. cataloguist (kat'a-log-ist), n. [ catalogue + -ist.] One who is skilled in making catalogues; a profe ional cataloguer. [Rare.] Though not made by cataloguists , let me mention a somewhat similar mistake caused by a misleading title. N. and Q., 7th ser., II. 166.