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Definition of Catholics
1. catholic [n] - See also: catholic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catholics
Literary usage of Catholics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Though American Roman catholics are in advance of European Roman ... One of the
grandest achievements of American Roman catholics is the fine system of ..."
2. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1905)
"An oath should therefore be imposed on all catholics, binding them to take up
arms in the Queen's name against the Pope or any foreign Prince who should ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"An oath should therefore be imposed on all catholics, binding them to take up
arms in the Queen's name against the Pope or any foreign Prince who should ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"тяну catholics who wore expelled from the city in the winter of 1641. lie died,
probably at Kilkenny, on 29 Nov. 1643, though other accounts give 1 Feb. ..."
5. The Contemporary Review (1874)
"One is that of the Old catholics, and the other is that of the Roman catholics.
If we are to judge merely by the numbers in official statistics, ..."
6. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore, Alfred Denis Godley (1910)
"WHAT ! siili those two infernal questions, That with our meals, our slumbers mix—
That spoil our tempers and digestions— Eternal Corn and catholics ! ..."
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