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Chambers, Ephraim, 1680 (ca.)-1740 / Cyclopædia, or, An universal dictionary of arts and sciences : containing the definitions of the terms, and accounts of the things signify'd thereby, in the several arts, both liberal and mechanical, and the several sciences, human and divine : the figures, kinds, properties, productions, preparations, and uses, of things natural and artificial : the rise, progress, and state of things ecclesiastical, civil, military, and commercial : with the several systems, sects, opinions, &c : among philosophers, divines, mathematicians, physicians, antiquaries, criticks, &c : the whole intended as a course of antient and modern learning
(1728)

Capillation - catholick,   pp. 153-172


Page 172

Word comes frm the Greek    ? m in- the fecond pretty brilkly, as Y7aliep,
and ScameN'y, c
.!~ua5ed:Whence, Catechumenium, the Gallery, or upper third~feverely, as
Coleicinrlh, Hellebore, Lavireola, &cSeec
'Tart of the Church 5 which was thus call'd, either becaufe under its proper
Article, CAssIA&, MANNAt, RHuIBARLB, VC
the Cairchhinzens fat here, or were here inftruaed.     Cathartics are'likewife
dividedlinto Chologogues, Phiegma-
CATEGORIEMA, in Logic ~         h   ae with Caoe- gogues, Melanogqgues, and
Hydrogogues- the Alrf fuppo41a
gory, or P1redicament. See CATEGORY.                  to purge the Bile,
the fecond Pituita, the third Melanche.
CATEGORY, or Predicament, in Logic, a Sy'flems lly, and the fourth Serofities.
See CHoLooGOGUS, ?HiLat-
or Afferrblag, ofalteBig       oti'd uinder any Ge- MAGOGUILS,t~c. The Word
comes from the GreekxggAif
Iu D orKnd 3 rangd in order:- See GENUS. The School purge, I pre.
Phlfph     ifiribuze all Bigall the Objeifs of our   For the Thoyo      alatcadte
manner 'wherein
Tr h ougt Uor ideas into certain Genera, o6r Clafichs, in or- they operate,
fee PURGATIVES.
erto ge    moedfi&adpeieNtion thereof 5               CATHEDRAL, a Church
wherein is a.Bfo'        e,~
which Claires they call Categories, or P~redicaMents. See Seur 5 fee Brsnor.
Pa ~ CA MEN T.                                          The Word feems to
take its rife from, the manner cof
The Antienits, after Ariftotke, generally, make ten Cate- fitting in the
antient Churches, or Afernblies of primitive
gories :Under the firfl, all Subftances are comnpris'd;5 and Chriffians :
in thefe, the Council, i. e. the 'Elders and
all 'Accidents under the nine lafi, vi.Quantity, Quality, Prieffs, was call'd
Presbyterium i at their head was the
Relation, A61ion, Paffion, Time, Place, Situation, anRhP, who held the Place
of Chairman, Cathedralis -
Habitude ; which are ufually exprefs'd, Or' fignify'd, by  and the Presbyters,
who fate on either fide, were alfo
thekfollwing Technical Diffich.                       call'd by the antient
Fathers,, A4ffeffors .Epi/coporum. The
Ardoe, rfrngratrifls  Epfcopal Authority did not refide in the Bilhop alone,
..4rbor, Sex, ServosAdrrfi rt       fo         bupt'in all the Presbyters,
whereof the Bilbop was Prefiden.
Ruri, cras, flake, nrec tunicatus Ero.           SceePRE85BYTr1'.
Thef tenCatgoris ofArilotl, whch  ogicans  ake A Cathedral therefo~re, originally,
woas diffe!rent -fidth
fuch Myfleries of, are now almoil out of Doors ; and, in wiehatvitni now
th hlibe nsy tobill the Timpe of'b theufa
efkiare of little ufe : the lefs, as being Things purely  iehangolbrttouldnyT
            pe:yter
arbitrary, without any Foundation, but in the Imagination  Churches they
only meant their Aiffrmblies; and by Ca-
of a Man, who had no Au thority to prefcribe Laws for thedrals, nothing more
than Confiflories. Whence appears
,ranging the Objeds of other Peoples Ifeas. Accordingly,th VaiyofoeAhrsefcalyheSaars
Som  ~ihilfopersthik al  atue my b beter'z~~-who pretend their Cathedrals
to have been built in thel
~der'd uinder thefe feven Things, Spirit, Matter, Quantity,TieofteAols. 
     heWrcoesrmteGek
Subilance, Figure, Motion, and Rkefit  And others make acs',Chir, of zJ'Cp&uu,
fedeo.
but to Caegoris, Sbilane an Accient.CATHERETIC Medicines, fuch as confurme
and carry
uth twor C  ategorye,  wfasc aorowd  bycdetheShosfo  off Carnofities, proud
Flefh, and Excrefcences arifing in
the rorlim, orCut    f juflice : For as, in a Trial, the  Wounds, ~ u harterd
   Pecpit are, burnt Alom,~ ble
Plaintiff, or Profecutor, in accufing the Criminal, or Pri- Vitriol, Stone,
&c.                     1
fonr, iuf carg hi  exresly oraffrmthat he did this  The Word is form'd from
the Greek a"3t, and twfas, I
or that, in pofitive Terms ; whence the WVord Category, tk  'acryof
v i .            t~~w  o aver, or declare : So in the Dodrine  Some call
thefe Medicines .Sarcophages, 'Flefli-eaters.
of Categories, every higher may be exprefsly, and abfolute- See CAUSTIC.
ly predicated, or a ffirm'd of every lower.             S. CATHERINE ef.Mount
Sinai, a Military Order, in-
CATENA     inAaoy          uce otherwife call'd ri- flituted in 1603, on
occafion of finding the Body of S. Ca-
bialis .4nticus ; which fee.                          therine on Mount Sinai;i
which drawing a great Concourfe
CATENARIA, in the. higher Geometry, a Curve Line of Pilgrims from all Quarters,
an Or er of Knights was
which a Chain, or Rope forms it fklf into, when hung freely eflablilh'd,
on the Foot of that of the Holfy Sepulchre, to
betwen twoPoins of ufpenlon.See CRVErender the journey more fafe among the
AYrabs. See SEL-
To conceive the general, Nature or Charaaer of this WLHE
Curve, fuppofe, iti, a L~ine heavy and flexible, (fee Tab.  They receiv'd
the Rule of St. Bhifil, ~and own'd St. Ca.
Geom. Fig., 25.) the two Extremes of which, F and D, are therine for their
Patronefs : Their Vows were, to follow
firmly fix'd in rhofre Points;5 by its weight it is bent into a their Rule,
guard the Body of their Patronefs, fecure the
certain Curve F AD, which is call'd thte Catenaria. zdly, Roads in favo'ur
of Pilgrims, defend the Catholick- Church,
Let B D) an~d b d be parallel to theIHorizon, A B perpen- and obey their
Grand Matter. The Order is now extrin&,
dicular to B D, and D J' parallel to A B;, and the Points  as well as that
of the Holy Sepulchre.
B 1' infinitel.y near to each other. From the Laws of Me.  CATHETER, among
Chirurgeons, a hollow Probe, or
chanicks, any three Powers, in A~quilibrio, are to one ano- rinffrunment,
foehrcokd  otruf uthYardit
ther as he Lnes aralel t  th  ines of their Dire~tion, the Bladder; in' order
to afifi in making Urine, when the
(or inclin'd in any given Angle) and terminated by their PIheisfopdbteSonGalCrnes
                c
mutual Concoulrfes : 'Hence, if D d expreiTes the abfolute  The Word comes
firom the Greek xopi immitto, to
Gravity of the- Particle D d, (as it will, if we-allow the  fend in.
.,ain to be ecy way unifrm  thnDIwl xrfht              Hence, Catbieterifim
is the Operation of drawing the
Part of the Gravity, that affs perpendicularly upon D di Urine out of the
Bladder with a Catheter.
and by the means of wh~ich, this Particle endeavours to CATHETUS, in Geometry,
a Perpendicular * or a Line,
reduce it, felf to a vertical Pofition : So that if this Lineola or Radius,
falling perpendicularly on another Line, or So-
,dcP becnitant, the perpendicular A~tion of Gravity upon  fc:SePREDCLR
the Parts of the 6Chain will be cnatto3      ndmy       Thus, the C'atheri
of a refiangled !7riangle, are the two
thereftre be exprefs'd by any given right Line a. Farther, Sides that include
the right Angle. See REC-TANGLE.
the Lineola D AN will expre~fs the Force which aas againit  CATn ETUS of
Incidence, in Catoptrics, is a right Line
that Conatus-of the Particle Dd (by which it endeavours drawn from a radiant
Point, perpendicular to the-Plane of
to reftore it felf into a Pofition perpendicular to the Hon'- th  peculum,
or Mirror. See][NCIVENCEL.
,zon) and hinders it firom doing fo. This Force proceeds  CATHIETUS of Rffeaio~n,
or of the Eye, a right Line
from the ponderous Line D A, drawing according to the Di- drawn from any
Point of a refleaed Ray, perpendicular to
re&ion D d - and is, cceteris paribus, proportional to the Line the Plane
of Refleaion, or of the, Speculum.. See Rz-
D A, which is the Cauife of it, Suppoling the Curve FAD, FLECTION.
therefore, as before,'woeVre      te oelPir~            CATHETUS of Obliquatien,
a right L ine, drawn perperndi-
the Cas'ena). is A, Axis A B, Ordinate BD D; Fluxion of the  ulrtthSpeculum,
in the Point of Inciden'ce or RA6l&ion.
Axis DJ' ~B b, Fluxion of the, Ordinate, 4IJ, the Rela-  CATHIETUS, in Archite~lure,
is a ~perpendicular Line,
toofthefe two Fluxions is thus, viz. d-J': D d:a : D A  paffing along thin
the middle of a Column :-or that thro the
Curve; which is the fundamental Pro -rty of the Curve, ~yefthVouinhJnicCatl
clldlo                  xs
and may be thus exprefs'd (putting Aw -x, and BD=y, See Axis, and VoLuTim.,
and A D    c) y= -x. For more on this Subje&, fee Phi-  CATHOLICK, is
us'd in the Seife of U#:hiefal, or Ge-
C                         w~~~~~eral;5 fee GENERAL, AEe C.
Iooiphi  !Trna7ins      'z3,whr      ti nlr'    pn     2keodqflus the Great,
firfi introduicd the Term Catholisk
byDr Gregoy                                          into the Church; appointing
by an Edidl, that the Title
CATR    E gRy. See PURVEOR                          ho' Id be applyd  by
way Of Pre-erninence, to thoer
CATHARTICS, Purgative Medicines', or Remedies Churches who aderld to the
Council. of Nice, in !Excluf6n
that promote Evacuation by Stool;5 fee PURGA!IVEs.   of the .drians &C.
 Qtaholicifim, ~however, foon cliang'd
Some' ufe the, Word Ca4thartic in a more general Senfe, Hands; for uner the
Emperor ConfntUs AriavNif  be
comiprehending 'under' it Enieis 'or Vomitives; 3but 'this can fopeoiat,
that the Arians- wrcaldte Ca-
feemls an Abufe: -See'EMT.rlcs'.                     tholicks. ~See A'Aitfv,
WC.
CatbJartics, in the prope Senfe of the Word, are of fe-  The Title of Catholiek
Kirg,, has been eeiayt h
veraI Kinds, mild, moderat  anid violent,: The firft purge  King of Spain,
ever findc the Time of Ferdinand and fik-,
gently -as Caffa Mann, 'mariids RhbrSn,&.bla               bober    
as   twsgven on occafion of the~
I              ~~~~~Expulfion


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