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Catholick

Catholick is the obsolete form of Catholic.

Meaning of Catholic

Adjective

Catholic (comparative more Catholic, superlative most Catholic)

  1. Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
    • Christmas is celebrated at different dates in the Catholic and Orthodox calendars.
    1. Of the Roman Catholic church in particular.
      • The Church of the Sacred Heart is a Catholic one.

See all 10 meanings of catholic

Forms of Catholick

Adjective
comparativemore Catholick
superlativemost Catholick
Noun
pluralCatholicks

Questions about Catholick

What is Catholick the obsolete form of?
Catholick is the obsolete form of Catholic.

Words near Catholick in the dictionary

  1. catholicized
  2. Catholicizer
  3. Catholicizers
  4. catholicizes
  5. catholicizing
  6. Catholick
  7. catholickly
  8. Catholicks
  9. Catholicky
  10. catholicly
  11. catholicness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Catholick (page history and authors); Catholic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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