Part 1705

<h1>Categorematic</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat`e*gor`e*mat"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ predicate. See <er>Category</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Logic.)</fld> <def>Capable of being employed by itself as a term; -- said of a word.</def>

<h1>Categorical</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat`e*gor"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Of or pertaining to a category.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; <as>as, a <ex>categorical</ex> proposition, or answer</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The scriptures by a multitude of <b>categorical</b> and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal.

<i>I. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Categorically</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; <as>as, to affirm <ex>categorically</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Categoricalness</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat`e*gor"ic*al*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being categorical, positive, or absolute.</def>

<i>A. Marvell.</i>

<h1>Categorist</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat"e*go*rist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who inserts in a category or list; one who classifies.</def>

<i>Emerson.</i>

<h1>Categorize</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat"e*go*rize</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.</def>

<h1>Category</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat"e*go*ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl.</plu> <plw>Categories</plw> <tt>(#)</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>categoria</ets>, Gr. <?/, fr. <?/ to accuse, affirm, predicate; <?/ down, against + <?/ to harrangue, assert, fr. <?/ assembly.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Logic.)</fld> <def>One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge or thought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in a system; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>categories</b> or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latter its literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended by Aristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capable of being named; an enumeration by the <b>summa genera</b> i.e., the most extensive classes into which things could be distributed. <i>J. S. Mill.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Class; also, state, condition, or predicament; <as>as, we are both in the same <ex>category</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>There is in modern literature a whole class of writers standing within the same <b>category</b>. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Catel</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat"el</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Chattel</er>.]</ety> <def>Property; -- often used by Chaucer in contrast with <i>rent</i>, or <i>income</i>.</def>

<blockquote>"<b>For loss of catel</b> may recovered be, But loss of tyme shendeth us," quod he. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Catelectrode</h1> <Xpage=227>

<hw>Cat`e*lec"trode</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>cata + elecrode</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>The negative electrode or pole of a voltaic battery.</def>

<i>Faraday.</i>