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UK
/kɐθˈiːdɹəl/
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[ US /kəˈθidɹəɫ/ ]
[ US /kəˈθidɹəɫ/ ]
NOUN
- the principal Christian church building of a bishop's diocese
- any large and important church
ADJECTIVE
-
relating to or containing or issuing from a bishop's office or throne
a cathedral church
How To Use cathedral In A Sentence
- The cathedral is the crowning glory of the city.
- I stood enthralled, astonished by the vastness and majesty of the cathedral
- The cathedral is the former Perpendicular parish church, reconstructed in 1880, with further extensions completed in 1966.
- The churches and cathedrals built by the Normans tended to use large stones.
- He waited there while the cathedral began to reverberate with a lovely, godly music. THE BROKEN GOD
- It was a large, three story house with a high-pitched roof and a single, cathedral-esque spire.
- And if it (hall happen that this legacy Ihall be found not to anfwcr the purpofe intended, I im - power the bifliop of Oflbry for the time being, with the confent of the dean and chapter of St. Canice, to fell the books, and apply their price together with. the faid (alary of the librarian towards raifing or sidoraiijig the imperfedl fteeple of their cathedral. Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
- This is true with the exception that of "Decorated" architecture there are but few examples, and it is probable that very little new work was done in connection with this cathedral until the monastery became vastly enriched by Abbot Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See
- Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940. January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin
- There are various classes of Secular Abbots; some have both jurisdiction and the right to use the pontifical insignia; others have only the abbatical dignity without either jurisdiction or the right to pontificalia; while yet another class holds in certain cathedral churches the first dignity and the privilege of precedence in choir and in assemblies, by reason of some suppressed or destroyed conventual church now become the cathedral. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize