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catholicate

catholicate noun: the jurisdiction of an Armenian catholicos.

Noun

catholicate (plural catholicates)

  1. (rare) The jurisdiction of an Armenian catholicos.
    • A Miaphysite Catholicate continued in very difficult circumstances to sustain the independent life of the Church from the cathedral in the former Armenian capital city of Ējmiacin or Valaršapat.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 276
    Synonyms:
    catholicosate

Synonyms of catholicate

Forms of catholicate

pluralcatholicates

Origin of catholicate

From Medieval Latin catholicatus.

Questions about catholicate

What does catholicate mean?
Catholicate means the jurisdiction of an Armenian catholicos.
What part of speech is catholicate?
Catholicate is a noun.
What is the plural of catholicate?
The plural of catholicate is catholicates.

Words near catholicate in the dictionary

  1. Catholic twins
  2. catholica
  3. catholical
  4. catholically
  5. catholicalness
  6. catholicate
  7. catholicates
  8. Catholicisation
  9. catholicise
  10. catholicised
  11. catholicises

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