CATHEAD

A Nautical term, signifying a strong inclined piece of timber projecting from either bow of a ship, to which the ring of the bower anchor is secured. The block or pulley hooked to the ring is called the cat block, the rope the cat-fall. CATHETjRAL. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The principal church of a diocese, in which is the throne of the The term cathedra was originally applied to the seats in which the bishop and presbyters sate in their a emblies, which were held in the rooms in which Ihe worship of the first Christians was also performed before 1 I liberty to erect temples for that purpose. In after-times the choir of the cathedral church was made to terminate in a semicircular or polygonal apsis; and in the rece thus formed were placed the throne of the bishop in the centre, and seats of an inferior cla for presbyters In modern203 cathedrals the bishop's throne is in [s. 217]