Catholic

kath'ol-ik, adj., universal: general, embracing the whole body of Christians liberal, the oppof exclusive: the name claimed by its adherents for the Church of Rome as the representative of the church founded by Christ and his apostles relating to the Roman Catholicsn. au adherent of the Roman Catholic Church. [Grkatkohkos, universal kata, throughout, kotos, the whole.] Catholicism, ka-thol'i-sizm, Catholicity, kath-oluniversality liberality or breadth of view the tenets of the R. Catholic Church.