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Any large and important church
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cathedral
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, "church of a bishop," from phrase cathedral church (c.1300), partially translating Late Latin ecclesia cathedralis "church of a bishop's seat," from Latin cathedra "an easy chair (principally used by ladies)," also metonymically, as in cathedrae ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cathedral \Ca*the"dral\, a. [LL. cathedralis: cf. F. cath['e]dral.] Pertaining to the head church of a diocese; as, a cathedral church; cathedral service. Emanating from the chair of office, as of a pope or bishop; official; authoritative. Now, what ...
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Behind her, the Martian hung in mid-glide, staring blindly down like one of the angels in the Andric cathedral at Newpest.
Under the tutelage of John Appassionata, he asked that he and his sister be baptized in the Catholic cathedral as Roman Catholics.
Irala died at the little village of Ita in 1557, and was buried in the cathedral at Asuncion, which he was building at the time.
Arriving at Asuncion, his friends all met him and took him in procession to the Cathedral.
Casa del Ayuntamiento stands, as many travellers know, in the Plaza of the same name, and faces the Cathedral, which is without doubt the oldest, as it assuredly is the most beautiful, church in the world.
With the gloom of the overhead canopy, and the sudden shafts of light breaking through like spotlights in the bloodred ambience, it was like walking through some vast, living cathedral.
There was a public procession in which took part the canons of the cathedral church, the clergy of the town, secular and regular, all walking barefoot.
First the cardinals assembled in the great Cathedral to offer Mass together, then left the building in procession to cross the square and enter the palace where the election was to occur.
Arm ten good men from the boarding squad, and meet the city manager and me at the Cathedral Parkway lookout.
Already the shadow of the Cathedral seemed to envelop her, and she was on the point of entering her own garden by the little gate which separated it from the Clos, without having once glanced behind her.
Big gathering cosponsored by the bar association and the California CPAs Foundation at the Cathedral Hill Hotel on the last weekend of the month.
There were no taxis or cyclos around, so we walked back across the Perfume River by the Phu Xuan Bridge into the New City where Susan said the cathedral was located.
Great Procession, when the Dalai Lama is carried into the city to visit the cathedral.
The open function being thus ended, the people were enjoined to proceed at once to the cathedral, where a Te Deum would be sung.
A solemn Te Deum was chanted at the cathedral of Notre Dame on Sunday, the 11th of April.