ex cathedra

ADVERB
  1. with the full authority of the office
    the pope must speak ex cathedra for an encyclical to be infallible
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How To Use ex cathedra In A Sentence

  • It has already been explained that the Papal rescript condemning the plan of campaign and the practice of boycotting is not an utterance ex cathedra.
  • The sultan is the virtual editor, and consequently the papers are popular, as containing opinions on state policy _ex cathedra_. The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
  • Henry Manning, who progressed from convert to ultramontane cardinal, encouraged Pius IX to consolidate authority and claim infallibility when pronouncing ex cathedra.
  • the pope must speak ex cathedra for an encyclical to be infallible
  • On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
  • On the north side of the peristyle is a double portico containing the _exedrae_, or seats of the sophists, where each most cunning rhetorician delivered his opinions _ex cathedrâ_, and lay in wait for any passer whom he could insnare into an argument. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859
  • This article is loaded with ex cathedra statements, unsubstantiated claims, and inaccuracies.
  • His early work, especially the cause célèbre "The Elementary Particles," is really less a novel than a treatise on biological determinism, full of ex cathedra pronouncements about the bestiality of human nature and showy pornography meant to illustrate man's mindless, insect-like urge to copulate. Reflections on Self-Regard
  • èclaircissement, explanation, declaration. eilding, fuel. empressement, eagerness. en croupe, behind the saddle. enfant trouvè, foundling. es spuckt do it haunts there. et puis, and then. ex cathedra, from the chair; with authority. exorciso te, I exorcise thee. Glossary
  • He too pronounces ex cathedra upon the characters of his contemporaries; and though he scruples not to deal out praise, even lavishly, to the lowest reptile in Grubstreet who will either flatter him in private, or mount the public rostrum as his panegyrist, he damns all the other writers of the age, with the utmost insolence and rancour — The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
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