Cathedra

Word CATHEDRA
Character 8
Hyphenation cath e dra
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Definitions and meanings of "Cathedra"

What do we mean by cathedra?

A bishop's official chair or throne. noun

The office or see of a bishop. noun

The official chair of an office or a position, as of a professor. noun

The throne or seat of a bishop in the cathedral or episcopal church of his diocese. noun

Hence The official chair of any one entitled or professing to teach with authority, as a professor. noun

The official chair or throne of a bishop, or of any person in high authority. noun

In the exercise of one's office; with authority. noun

The chair or throne of a bishop. noun

The rank of a bishop. noun

A throne that is the official chair of a bishop noun

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The word "cathedra" in example sentences

A church building in which a Christian bishop has his official seat; cathedra is Latin for “chair. ❋ Unknown (2002)

A Christian church building in which a bishop has his official seat (cathedra is Latin for “chair”). ❋ Unknown (2002)

The word cathedra, so expressive in the language of antiquity, has gradually been replaced in liturgical usage, by throne (thronus) or seat (sedes). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

He sat there, as teachers do in cathedra -- in the chair of instruction. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The chief Church in a diocese is called a Cathedral because the bishop's cathedra, that is, his seat or throne, is erected in it, and because he celebrates all important feasts and performs all his special duties in it. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

Therefore Peter first sat in that single cathedra, which is the first gift of the Church, to him succeeded Linus … to Damasus, Siricius, who is our contemporary, with whom the world together with us agree in one fellowship of communion by the interchange of letters. ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)

Her cathedra was a high arm-chair which she never quitted but to be carried to her observatory on the roof of the house, where she kept her astrological tablets and manuscripts. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

If, however, there was a bishop in charge of the missionary priests, deacons, and laymen who lived there together, there must necessarily have been a "cathedra" in the church they used. ❋ Hubert C. Corlette (N/A)

Augustinian monastery, is the lecture-room and the ancient "cathedra" from which he delivered those lectures which laid the foundation of his fame in the early years of his professorship. ❋ Minerva Brace Norton (N/A)

It is not a cathedral; that is, it is not the "cathedra" of a bishop. ❋ Various (1885)

Antioch and Rome) to show that, in the language of the Fathers as well as among the monuments of antiquity, the cathedra was the principal symbol of authority. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Mitch, "the mouth from the south," cathedra "that the new Democratic sponsored banking reform bill was a" Bank Bailout Bill ", trying to tap into the anger of the average American towards the term Bank Bailout. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But already and especially in light of his slightly comical notion of the "strong poet" one suspected Bloom of being, or having become, another sort of critic: ruinously addicted to ex cathedra pronouncements, and a deal less given to actual argument than you'd hope for in a writer whose hobbyhorse was the intricate drama of doubt and persuasion itself. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In fact, considerably less so than those who claim, ex cathedra, that government involvement is always bad. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"And I remember thinking: you've gone on television, made ex cathedra statements against the whole idea of international action to resolve political crises in dangerous places, making a case for America to do its own thing because no one else can; and then when you're pushed on it, you say: well, I don't actually know what I'm talking about." p. ❋ Joseph A. Palermo (2012)

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