English words for 'Indicates that the speaker is a Catholic.'
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- (Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
- (communication, media) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.
- (chiefly US, law) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.
- (chiefly US, law) The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.
- A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
- (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
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- a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
- A friar or nun of a religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order, such as (Roman Catholicism) the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (for men), Order of Friars Minor Conventual (men), Order of Saint Clare (women), or the Third Order of Saint Francis (men and women); or (Protestantism) certain orders in some Protestant churches, especially the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church.
- A friar of the religious order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1209, now known as the Order of the Friars Minor.
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- of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him
- Of or pertaining to Saint Francis of Assisi.
- Of or pertaining to (Roman Catholicism) the Order of the Friars Minor, or (Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) to another religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order.
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- a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
- Alternative spelling of qanun.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- (chiefly fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- (cooking) Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”).
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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- (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- (by extension, figurative) Someone who acts as listener and helper.
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
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- A priest (Neh. 12:42).
- A Levite (2 Chr. 35:9).
- The father of Urijah the prophet (Jer. 26:20).
- A Levite appointed to "distribute the oblations of the Lord" (2 Chr. 31:15).
- A prince of Judah who assisted at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem (Neh. 12:34-36).
- A false prophet who opposed Jeremiah (Jer. 29:24-32).
- One of the Levites whom Jehoshaphat appointed to teach the law (2 Chr. 17:8).
- Neh. 3:29.
- A Levite (1 Chr. 24:6).
- A false prophet who hindered the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 6:10).
- 1 Chr. 9:14; Neh. 11:15.
- A Levite (1 Chr. 9:16).
- The eldest son of Obed-edom (1 Chr. 26:4-8).
- A Simeonite (1 Chr. 4:37).
- A Levite in the time of David, who with 200 of his brethren took part in the bringing up of the ark from Obed-edom to Hebron (1 Chr. 15:8).
- A Levite (2 Chr. 29:14).
- A prophet in the reign of Rehoboam (1 Kings 12:22-24).
- A rabbinic sage who was leader of the Pharisees in 1st century BC.
- The father of a prince in the reign of Jehoiakim (Jer. 36:12).
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- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
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- the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- (cooking) Garlic, when used in addition to the Holy Trinity of celery, bell peppers and onions.
- (by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
- (British) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
- (US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
- (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
- (Coptic Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
- (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
- (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
- (Russian Orthodoxy) Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
- (US regional) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
- (rare) The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
- (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
- (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
- (UK regional, Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Scotland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
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- a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
- A variety of pear.
- (now historical) A type of fine woolen material.
- A member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic religious order focusing on contemplative prayer and the Virgin Mary.
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- Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
- enjoying the bliss of heaven
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
- characterized by happiness and good fortune
- Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
- Worthy of worship; holy.
- Held in veneration; revered.
- (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
- Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
- (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)
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- (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
- (medicine, of a fever) Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
- of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds
- relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day
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- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A cross-course.
- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- A hairpin bend.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
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- A Roman Catholic person, chiefly one of Irish descent or ethnicity.
- (chiefly in the plural) A member of a roving band of hunter-warriors in ancient Ireland, especially the band led by the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology; (generally) a person of ancient Ireland.
- A supporter of the Scottish association football club Celtic Football Club.
- (also UK) A member of an organization opposing British rule in Ireland, especially the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood which were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; (generally) an Irish nationalist or republican.
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- Of or relating to the Scottish association football club Celtic Football Club.
- (also UK) Of or relating to organizations opposing British rule in Ireland, especially the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood which were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Of or relating to roving bands of hunter-warriors in ancient Ireland, especially the band led by the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology; (generally) of or relating to the people of ancient Ireland.
- Of or relating to a Roman Catholic, chiefly one of Irish descent or ethnicity.
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- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- (British, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- someone who supervises (an examination)
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- Initialism of parish priest.
- (video games) Abbreviation of performance points.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
- (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
- (sports) Initialism of power play.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
- (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
- (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
- (grammar) Initialism of postpositional phrase.
- (grammar) Initialism of past participle.
- (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
- Initialism of public parking.
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- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
- (Anglicanism) A layperson who acts as an assistant to the deacon during the celebration of mass.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon.
- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.
- a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
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- (Roman Catholicism) A pronouncement by a pope to an assembly of church officials concerning a matter of church policy.
- (communication, media) The mode of information dissemination in which media broadcasts are transmitted to multiple receivers with no or very limited capability of a two-way exchange of information.
- (chiefly US, law) The question put to a convicted defendant by a judge after the rendering of the verdict in a trial, in which the defendant is asked whether he or she wishes to make a statement to the court before sentencing; the statement made by a defendant in response to such a question; the legal right of a defendant to make such a statement.
- (chiefly US, law) The legal right of a victim, in some jurisdictions, to make a statement to a court prior to sentencing of a defendant convicted of a crime causing injury to that victim; the actual statement made to a court by a victim.
- A formal speech, especially one which is regarded as authoritative and forceful.
- (rhetoric) a formal or authoritative address that advises or exhorts
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verb
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- a Roman Catholic friar wearing the grey habit of the Franciscan order
- A friar or nun of a religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order, such as (Roman Catholicism) the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin (for men), Order of Friars Minor Conventual (men), Order of Saint Clare (women), or the Third Order of Saint Francis (men and women); or (Protestantism) certain orders in some Protestant churches, especially the Anglican Church and the Lutheran Church.
- A friar of the religious order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1209, now known as the Order of the Friars Minor.
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- of or relating to Saint Francis of Assisi or to the order founded by him
- Of or pertaining to Saint Francis of Assisi.
- Of or pertaining to (Roman Catholicism) the Order of the Friars Minor, or (Protestantism, Roman Catholicism) to another religious order based on the rule of Francis of Assisi's original order.
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- a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
- a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
- a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
- a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy
- a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
- a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
- Alternative spelling of qanun.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- A formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”).
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- A type of clergymember serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- (chiefly fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe; (metonymic) these sources' content.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- (cooking) Alternative form of cannon (“rolled and filleted loin of meat”).
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
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- (Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism) A priest who hears confession and then gives absolution.
- a priest who hears confession and gives absolution
- One who confesses to having done something wrong.
- (by extension, figurative) Someone who acts as listener and helper.
- One who confesses faith in Christianity in the face of persecution, but who is not martyred.
- someone who confesses (discloses information damaging to themselves)
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- a Roman Catholic priest who acts for another higher-ranking clergyman
- (Church of England) a clergyman appointed to act as priest of a parish
- (Episcopal Church) a clergyman in charge of a chapel
- In the Church of England, the priest of a parish, receiving a salary or stipend but not tithes.
- A person acting on behalf of, or representing, another person.
- In the Roman Catholic and some other churches, a cleric acting as local representative of a higher ranking member of the clergy.
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- the head of the Roman Catholic Church
- (cooking) Garlic, when used in addition to the Holy Trinity of celery, bell peppers and onions.
- (by extension, now often ironic) Any similarly absolute and 'infallible' authority.
- (British) The ruffe, a small Eurasian freshwater fish (Gymnocephalus cernua); others of its genus.
- (US, dialectal, rare) The nighthawk (Chordeiles minor).
- (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
- (Coptic Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Coptic bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his church.
- (alcoholic beverages) Any mulled wine (traditionally including tokay) considered similar and superior to bishop.
- (UK) An effigy of the pope traditionally burnt in Britain on Guy Fawkes' Day and (occasionally) at other times.
- (Russian Orthodoxy) Alternative form of pop, a Russian Orthodox priest.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) An honorary title of the Orthodox bishop of Alexandria as father and head of his autocephalous church.
- (US regional) The painted bunting (Passerina ciris).
- (rare) The red-cowled cardinal (Paroaria dominicana).
- (uncommon) A theocrat, a priest-king, including (at first especially) over the imaginary land of Prester John or (now) in figurative and alliterative uses.
- (by extension) Any similar head of a religion.
- (UK regional, Cumberland, Cornwall, Devon, Scotland) The Atlantic puffin (Fratercula arctica).
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- a Roman Catholic friar wearing the white cloak of the Carmelite order; mendicant preachers
- A variety of pear.
- (now historical) A type of fine woolen material.
- A member of the Order of the Brothers of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, a Catholic religious order focusing on contemplative prayer and the Virgin Mary.
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- (music) Pertaining to the mean-tone temperament, in which major thirds are perfectly in tune.
- (medicine, of a fever) Characterised by paroxysms recurring every other day (that is, every third day by inclusive reckoning).
- of or relating to a tonal system based on major thirds
- relating to symptoms (especially malarial fever) that appear every other day
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- (derogatory, offensive) A Catholic.
- A cross-course.
- (dance) A step in which one leg crosses behind the other.
- A hairpin bend.
- (American football) A play in which the player with the ball crosses to one side of the field and then doubles back to the other.
- A cross between a hybrid species and one of the original parent species.
- A return to the original course of action by one who previously changed to a different course of action, or the person making that return.
- Two pieces on the back of an item (for attaching or bracing it) which form an "X".
- An "X"-shaped railroad crossing sign.
- A species resulting from such a crossback.
- The measurement from the outer edge of one shoulder blade to the outer edge of the other.
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- A term of respectful address for a priest.
- (computing) The archived older version of a file that immediately precedes the current version, and was itself derived from the grandfather.
- Something that is the greatest or most significant of its kind.
- A male who has sired a baby; this person in relation to his child or children.
- (Christianity) A member of a church council.
- A male ancestor more remote than a parent; a progenitor; especially, a first ancestor.
- Something inanimate that begets.
- A pioneering figure in a particular field.
- A term of respectful address for an elderly man.
- A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.).
- A person who plays the role of a father in some way.
- a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization
- a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)
- the head of an organized crime family
- the founder of a family
- a person who founds or establishes some institution
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- A Roman Catholic person, chiefly one of Irish descent or ethnicity.
- (chiefly in the plural) A member of a roving band of hunter-warriors in ancient Ireland, especially the band led by the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology; (generally) a person of ancient Ireland.
- A supporter of the Scottish association football club Celtic Football Club.
- (also UK) A member of an organization opposing British rule in Ireland, especially the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood which were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; (generally) an Irish nationalist or republican.
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- Of or relating to the Scottish association football club Celtic Football Club.
- (also UK) Of or relating to organizations opposing British rule in Ireland, especially the Fenian Brotherhood and Irish Republican Brotherhood which were active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Of or relating to roving bands of hunter-warriors in ancient Ireland, especially the band led by the hero Fionn mac Cumhaill in Irish mythology; (generally) of or relating to the people of ancient Ireland.
- Of or relating to a Roman Catholic, chiefly one of Irish descent or ethnicity.
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- A representative of the clergy in convocation.
- (British, law) A legal practitioner in ecclesiastical and some other courts.
- A procurator or manager for another.
- (UK) An official at any of several older universities.
- (Canada, US, Philippines) A person who supervises students as they take an examination, in the United States at the college/university level; often the department secretary, or a fellow/graduate student; an invigilator.
- someone who supervises (an examination)
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- Initialism of parish priest.
- (video games) Abbreviation of performance points.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pussy pass.
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of polypropylene.
- (dance) Initialism of promenade position.
- (sports) Initialism of power play.
- (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of pee-pee (“penis or vagina”).
- (British, Ireland) Initialism of planning permission.
- (medicine) Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).
- (medicine) Initialism of precocious puberty.
- (grammar) Initialism of postpositional phrase.
- (grammar) Initialism of past participle.
- (grammar) Initialism of prepositional phrase.
- Initialism of public parking.
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- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
- (Anglicanism) A layperson who acts as an assistant to the deacon during the celebration of mass.
- (Eastern Orthodoxy) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon.
- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.
- a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
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- Roman Catholic; proclaimed one of the blessed and thus worthy of veneration
- enjoying the bliss of heaven
- expletives used informally as intensifiers
- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
- characterized by happiness and good fortune
- Having divine aid, or protection, or other blessing.
- Worthy of worship; holy.
- Held in veneration; revered.
- (Roman Catholicism) A title indicating the beatification of a person, thus allowing public veneration of those who have lived in sanctity or died as martyrs.
- Elect or saved after death; hence (euphemistic) dead.
- (informal, euphemistic) damned (as an intensifier or vehement denial)