cat agenesis (katajenesis)

[NL., II. n. In med., a remedy believed to promote the union of fractured parts. Dunglison . cat agma tical (kat-ag-mat'i-kal), a. Pertaining to cat agma tics. Coles . catagrapht (kat'a-graf), n. [L. cat agrapha , n. pl., profile paintings, καταγραφή , a drawing, outline, κατάγραφος , drawn in outline, καταγράφειν , draw in outline, write down, γράφειν , write.] 1. The first draft of a picture. - 2. A profile. Cataian, Cathaian (ka-ta'an, -thā'an), a. and n. [ Cathay , formerly pronounced Catay, called Kitai by Marco Polo; said to be a Persian corruption of Ki - tan , the name of a Tatar tribe who ruled the northern part of China from A. D. 1118 to 1235, under the title of the Kin , or golden dynasty.] I. a. Of or pertaining to Cathay. II. n. A native of Cathay (an early, and now only a poetic, name for China); a foreigner generally; hence, in old writers, an indiscriminate term of reproach. I will not believe such a Cataian , though the priest o' the town commended him for a true man. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1.