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catholicus

catholicus · adj

universal

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Where it lives

De Fide Catholica 3 · 15.56/10k
Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 8 · 13.72/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 2 · 6.88/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 13 · 2.81/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 19 · 2.69/10k
Psychomachia 1 · 1.67/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Adversus Marcionem 2 · 0.24/10k
Naturalis Historia 2 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

căthŏlĭcus — Lewis & Short

căthŏlĭcus (catholicus, a, um, adj., = kaqoliko/s,

Prud. Apoth. 70),

I universal, relating to all (post - Aug.; in Quint. 2, 13, 14 as Greek, transl. by universalis and perpetualis; cf. Cael. Aur. Acut. 1, 5, 46): catholica et summa bonitas Dei, Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 17.—Adv.: căthŏlĭcē: in medium proferre. Tert. Praescr. 26.—More freq. subst.: căthŏlĭca, ōrum. n., the universe: anne caelestes dii catholicorum dominantur? App. Trism. 39, p. 100, 13: catholica siderum, general properties, Plin. 1, epit. 2, n. 15; so, fulgurum, id. n. 55 —

II Orthodox, catholic (eccl. Lat.): fides, Prud. stef. 11, 24 et saep.: ecclesia, Cod. Th. 16, 5, 47 al.—Adv.: căthŏlĭcē: dictum, Hier. in Ruf. 2, 3.

In the wild

catholicus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae val2.12.65
catholica Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.22.p2
catholicis Boethius, Liber De Persona et Duabus Naturis Contra Eutychen Et Nestorium 4
catholica Boethius, De Fide Catholica 1
catholica Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 5.21.p1
catholica Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.291

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