morrison@cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) (09/01/90)
I have found a bug in the otherwise solid Webster application.
The NeXTStep interface appears to have chosen too small a maximum word-length.
Try defining "cathedralcoftheimmaculateconception". The word is there,
as evidenced by the prompt to correct the spelling. Moreover, the
definition can actually be retrieved in the tty interface to Webster.
Thanks are due to Richard O'Keefe of comp.lang.prolog, who used the
word cathedralgic in a recent posting. I naturally
brought up my Webster window in search of enlightenment. Cathedralgic
is not defined in Webster but the above word apparently looked pretty
close. By the way, cathedralcoftheimmaculateconception is a US college
in Douglaston, N.Y. I have yet to find reference to cathedralgic in
any of the hard-copy dictionaries we have in the Department.
On a side-note, I think the decision to bundle Webster was
one of NeXT's best. Before I began spending my days in front of a Cube
I would never have bothered with this entire exercise. Now, I use Webster
at least once a day.
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(604) 228-5010dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (09/01/90)
In article <9371@ubc-cs.UUCP> morrison@cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) writes: >Thanks are due to Richard O'Keefe of comp.lang.prolog, who used the >word cathedralgic in a recent posting. I naturally >brought up my Webster window in search of enlightenment. Cathedralgic >is not defined in Webster. I have yet to find reference to cathedralgic in >any of the hard-copy dictionaries we have in the Department. I don't think you will, unless somebody has misspelled it or coined it very, very recently. Here are all the English words that begin with "cathed": CATHEDRA CATHEDRAL Cathed Cathedr Cathedra Cathedrae Cathedral Cathedral' Cathedral'd Cathedraled Cathedralism Cathedralist Cathedralists Cathedrall Cathedralled Cathedralllike Cathedralls Cathedralman Cathedrals Cathedrate Cathedrated Cathedratick Cathedraticum cathed cathedra cathedraical cathedral cathedraldome cathedrale cathedraled cathedralesque cathedralic cathedralis cathedralised cathedralish cathedrall cathedralle cathedralled cathedrallike cathedrals cathedralwise cathedrant cathedrarian cathedrarius cathedrate cathedrated cathedratic cathedratically cathedraticals cathedraticum cathedraticus cathedratique cathedreticum Source? The online Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition. Curious about the above words? Read on. oed2> prtvl "cathed" 11 matches Match 1 cathed, ppl. a. rare [-1 ]. 1677 N. COX Gentl. Recreat. I. (1706) 93 Give them [Coneys] not too much green juicy meat, unless you intermix therwith what is dry..otherwise they will be Cathed, or tun-belly'd. Match 2 cathedra (k&schwa.'thetai:dr&schwa.), ('kaethetaIdr&schwa.). [L. cathedra, a. Gr. kaqedra chair; esp. seat of a bishop, teacher's or professor's chair: f. kata down + ed- sit. ] 1 The chair or seat of a bishop in his church; hence, the episcopal see or dignity. 1829 Trial J. Martin (York) 35 The curtains of the cathedra were up on Sunday. 1863 J. R. WALLRAN Mem. Fountains Abbey 20 When Archbishop Turstin ascended the cathedra of York in 1114. 1866 J. H. NEWMAN Let. to Pusey (ed. 2) 144 Chrysostom..was in close relations with the once Semi-arian Cathedra of Antioch. 2 Latin phr. ex cathedra, `from the chair', i.e. in the manner of one speaking from the seat of office or professorial chair, with authority; also used attrib. = officially uttered. So in cathedra. 1635 PAGITT Christianogr. I. i. (1636) 23 And that he in cathedra cannot erre. 1674 HICKMAN Hist. Quinquart. Ep. A iv b, When they can neither say, that the Pope was misinformed, or that he was not in Cathedra. 1818 SCOTT Rob Roy xxii, He was a great lover of form, more especially when he could dictate it ex cathedra. 1820 BYRON Blues I. 150 Old Botherby's spouting ex-cathedra tone. 1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) I. 128 He, ex cathedra, was determining their several questions to them. 1885 Manch. Exam. 4 May 5/2 The President's ex cathedra judgment. Match 3 cathe'draical, a. Obs. rare. [irreg. f. prec.: cf. algebraical. ] = CATHEDRAL 1. 1676 DEGGE Parson's Counsellor 284 (L.) To prove them one and the same with the cathedraical duty. Match 4 cathedral (k&schwa.'thetai:dr&schwa.l), a. [a. Fr. cathedral, or ad. (its source) med.L. cathedralis of or belonging to the (bishop's) seat, f. cathedra: see prec. (But some adj. uses have arisen anew from the sb.) ] 1 Of or pertaining to the bishop's throne or see. a esp. in cathedral church (formerly also church cathedral), the church which contains the bishop's throne, the principal church of a diocese; = CATHEDRAL sb. F. eglise cathedrale. (It has been applied loosely to a collegiate or abbey church.) 1297 R. GLOUC. (1724) 282 Atte heye chyrche of Wynchester, per ys se was ydo, pat me clupede chyrche cathedral. A. 1384 WYCLIF Wks. (1880) 73 Thei maken men to 3eue here nedi liflode to here cathedral chirches pat han no nede. A. 1420 OCCLEVE De Reg. Princ. 2906 The chapitre of a chirche cathedralle. 1480 CAXTON Descr. Brit. 25 Boniface..songe in euery Cathedrall chirche of Wales a mas. 1577 tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 344 To make sacrifices in the high places, in their Cathedral Churches at Bethel and at Dan. 1593 SHAKS. 2 Hen. VI, I. ii. 37 Me thought I sate in Seate of Maiesty, In the Cathedrall Church of Westminster. 1597 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. V. lxxx. Sect.11 Bishops and churches cathedral being sufficiently endowed with lands. 1845 M [C ]CULLOCH Acc. Brit. (1854) II. 277 The several cathedral and collegiate churches in England and Wales. b generally. 1570 LEVINS Manip. 13 Cathedral, cathedralis. 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Cathedrall, chiefe in the Diocesse. A. 1640 JACKSON Creed XII. xv, If in this cathedral constitution he did not err. 1641 MILTON Animadv. (1851) 207 More savoury knowledge in one Lay-man, than in a dozen of Cathedrall Prelates. 1688 R. HOLME Armoury II. 391/1 The Broad, or Cathedral Beard..because Bishops and Grave Men of the Church antiently did wear such Beards. 1882-3 SCHAFF Relig. Encycl. III. 2305 He found his cathedral chair full of thorns. 2 Of or pertaining to the chair of office or authority; ex cathedra: a ecclesiastically. 1638 HEYWOOD Lucrece I. Wks. 1874 V. 170 Heere we enthrone our selves, Cathedrall state Long since detaind us, justly we resume. 1647 JER. TAYLOR Lib. Proph. vii. 125 To dissent from any of his [the Pope's] Cathedrall determinations is absolute heresy. 1886 Sat. Rev. 10 July 47/1 The cathedral utterances of Leo XIII. b professorially. 1603 FLORIO Montaigne II. iii. (1632) 193 To resolve belongs to a cathedrall master [F. cathedrant]. 1605 B. JONSON Volpone I. ii. (1616) 455 Hood an asse with reuerend purple..And he shall passe for a cathedrall Doctor. 1618 HALES Let. in Gold. Rem. (1688) 423 The Schoolmens Conclusions and Cathedral Decisions had been received as Oracles and Articles of Faith. 1849 T. B. SHAW Outlines Eng. Lit. 299 The style is too uniformly didactic, cathedral, and declamatory. 3 (See quots.) 1690 B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Cathedral, old-fashioned, out of Date, Ancient. 1755 JOHNSON, Cathedral, in low phrase, antique, venerable, old. In some cases, e.g. cathedral town, it is difficult to distinguish between the original adjective, and the sb. used attributively: see next 3. Match 5 cathedral (k&schwa.'thetai:dr&schwa.l), sb. [originally cathedral church: see prec. Fr. cathedrale. ] 1 a The principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's cathedra or throne; usually remarkable for size and architectural beauty. (It has been applied to the Abbey Church of Westminster.) 1587 HARRISON England II. i. (1877) I. 16 As the number of churches increased, so the repaire of the faithfull vnto the cathedrals did diminish. 1663 GERBIER Counsel D vij a, The great Cathedralls of St. Paul, and St. Peter, in this Metropolitan City. 1718 LADY M. W. MONTAGUE Let. to Pope 28 Sept., The great Cathedral of St. John [in Lyons] is a good Gothic building. 1848 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. I. 339 Cathedrals decorated by all the art and magnificence of the middle ages. 1852 TENNYSON Ode Wellington ix, Lay your earthly fancies down, And in the vast cathedral leave him. 1861 A. B. HOPE (title), The English Cathedral. b Taken as a type of the Episcopal system. 1679 Establ. Test 11 They had..ruin'd the Monarchy, and pull'd down the old Cathedral, without Establishing..any Church at all. 2 fig. Chief centre of authority and teaching. 1643 MILTON Divorce To Parlt., Our ancient Druides, by whom this Iland was the Cathedral of Philosophy to France. 1651 BIGGS New Disp. Pref. 5 Let England then keep that honour..to be the Cathedral to other Nations. 3 attrib. and Comb., as cathedral air, chime, city, close, dome, family, front, man, music, service, spire, tower, town, walk (= resembling an aisle in a cathedral); cathedral-like, -wise advbs.; cathedral glass, coloured glass leaded after the fashion of the stained windows of churches, used (e.g.) in the panels of the vestibule doors of houses. 1644 T. HILL Right Separation (1645) 34 This made *Cathedrall aire (for the most part) so impure. 1902 W. S. WALKER Zealandia's Guerdon i. 16 A pretty cottage in the North Belt of Christchurch, the *Cathedral City of New Zealand. 1983 Time 25 July 44/2 The castle is 60 miles from the great cathedral city of York. 1841 Penny Cycl. s.v. Salisbury, There is in the *cathedral close a college or almshouse for ten clergymen's widows. 1877 BRYANT Lit. People of Snow 155 Like some vast *cathedral-dome. 1740 in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 264 When there is a place vacant in your family..I mean your *cathedral family. 1864 TENNYSON Sea Dreams 211 Huge *cathedral fronts of every age. 1850 Archaeol. Inst. Gt. Brit.: Mem. Lincoln 1848 122 Many modern windows in which stain is used, especially those composed of the yellow tinted `*Cathedral glass', appear at a little distance as if they were wholly yellow. 1885 Spon's Mechanic's Own Bk. 630 `Roundels' and `bullions' are small discs of glass..used in fretwork with cathedral glass. 1905 H. A. EVANS Highways & Byways Oxf. & Cotswolds 329 The exquisite pale green transparent glass of the windows,..displaced to make room for the vulgar abomination known as `cathedral glass'. 1960 WILLMOTT & YOUNG Family & Class i. 11 Stained `Cathedral' glass..is used for the top halves of doors. 1631 WEEVER Anc. Fun. Mon. 628 This Church is spatious, beautifull, and built *Cathedrall-like. 1694 Providence of God 67 As ready and perfect in their Responses, as any *Cathedral-man whatever. 1880 GROVE Dict. Mus., *Cathedral Music, music composed for use in English Cathedral Service since the Reformation. A. 1704 LOCKE (J.) His constant and regular assisting at the *cathedral service. 1842 TENNYSON Gardener's Dau. 213 The gray *cathedral towers Reveal'd their shining windows. A. 1859 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 157 Visions of..closes in old *cathedral towns. 17.. POPE Imitat. Cowley 13 Here aged trees *Cathedral walks compose. A. 1780 BLACKSTONE Farewell Muse 22 Aged elms..In long cathedral walks extend. 1713 STEELE Guardian No. 80 (1756) I. 354 The service was performed *cathedral-wise. Hence ca,thedra'lesque, cathe'dralic, ca'thedralish, adjs., like a cathedral; ca'thedralized a., converted into a cathedral; ca'thedralism, the cathedral system. 1884 Pall Mall G. 7 Jan. 2/2 Such magnificent minsters and cathedralesque churches as Tewkesbury, Malvern, Wimborne. 1870 HAWTHORNE Eng. Note-bks. (1879) II. 206 Almost cathedralic in its dimensions. 1840 TUPPER Let. in My life as Author (1886) 43 A large cathedralish church. 1885 G. N. BOARDMAN in Advance (Chicago) 3 Dec. 777 One large element of English religious character..is, if I may coin a word, Cathedralism. 1861 A. B. HOPE Eng. Cathedr. 19th C. 178 The cathedralised abbey churches. Match 6 cathedraled (k&schwa.'thetai:dr&schwa.ld), a. [f. CATHEDRAL sb. + -ED [2 ]. ] In various nonce-uses, as a Seated on a cathedra or throne; b Vaulted like a cathedral; c Adorned with or having a cathedral. 1611 HEYWOOD Gold. Age III. i. Wks. 1874 III. 37 The cittadell Where the Cathedral'd Saturne is enthron'd. 1830 TENNYSON Poems 125 Cathedralled caverns of thick ribbed gold. 1840 Fraser's Mag. XXI. 126 Cathedraled Bristol, castled Nottingham. 1850 L. HUNT Autobiog. III. xxi. 106 Florence lay clear and cathedralled before us. Match 7 ca'thedralist. Obs. [see -IST. ] A supporter of the cathedral or episcopal system; one of the clergy of a cathedral. 1644 Jus Populi 12 We need not doubt this promissor was some Cathedralist within orders, he does so shuffle Priests and Princes together. 1644 JESSOP Angel of Eph. 30 Our Cathedralists pretend the Church but meane the Bishops and themselves. 1661 PRYNNE Exub. in Com. Prayer 23 Sober, judicious Protestants, Prelates and Cathedralists. Match 8 cathe'drarian, a. nonce-wd. [f. L. cathedrari-us (f. cathedra) + -AN. ] Of or belonging to a cathedra or chair (pedantic). 1830 LYTTON Eugene A. i. 5 The traveller taking advantage of Peter's hasty abandonment of his cathedrarian accommodation, seized the vacant chair. Match 9 cathedrate, a. Obs. rare [-1 ]. [f. CATHEDRA + -ATE [2 ]. ] Containing a cathedra or bishop's seat. 1536 in Atterbury Addit. 1st ed. Rights Convoc. (1701) App. 43 You our said Bishops..in your Cathedrate Churches. So cathedrated ppl. a., enthroned on the bishop's seat; installed in the professorial chair. 1626 W. SCLATER Expos. 2 Thess. (1629) 128 At length wee finde him [Antichrist] a Bishop Cathedrated in the Church. 1654 R. WHITLOCK Observ. Manners Eng. 385 (T.) With the cathedrated authority of a praelector or publick reader. Match 10 cathe'dratic, a. and sb. [ad. med.L. cathedraticus, f. cathedra. Cf. Fr. cathedratique. ] 1 Law. Pertaining to the bishop's seat; belonging to the episcopal see; in cathedratic payment, imposition, right. 1661 J. STEPHENS Procurations 85 This Cathedratick payment to the Bishop from the beneficed Clergie within his Dioecess. 1661 J. STEPHENS Procurations 97 This Cathedratick imposition. 1725 tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. I. II. iii. 41 They gave the Bishop the Third Part of these Oblations, which was called the Right Cathedratick [droit cathedratique]. 2 Pronounced ex cathedra, or from the chair, authoritative. 18.. Fraser's Mag. (O.) There is the prestige of antiquity which adds the authority of venerability to cathedratic precepts. 1871 T. A. TROLLOPE Durnton Abb. II. xvii. 281 `Nothing is a matter of course!' said Mr. Burrows, in a very cathedratic manner. B quasi-sb. = cathedratic payment in 1. Also in the L. form cathedraticum (see Du Cange). 1670 BLOUNT Law Dict., Cathedratick (Cathedraticum) is a Sum of 2s. paid to the Bishop by the Inferior Clergy, in Argumentum subjectionis and ob honorem Cathedrae. 1721 in BAILEY. 1774 T. WEST Antiq. Furness (1805) 203 The cathedreticum, synodales, and the procurations of the apostolic see. 1846 M [C ]CULLOCH Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) II. 305 The emoluments of a [Roman Catholic] bishop arise from his parish, from licenses, and from the cathedraticum. Match 11 cathe'dratical, a. and sb. = prec. A. 1670 HACKET Abp. Williams II. (1692) 54 When you do not pay your procurations only, but your cathedraticals and synodals also. Hence cathe'dratically adv., authoritatively. 1828 Edin. Rev. XLVIII. 505 The wisdom of this world cannot tolerate the idea that so little is left for it cathedratically to perform, with dogmatic certainty. oed2> -- Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office Internet: s-dorner@uiuc.edu UUCP: uunet!uiucuxc!uiuc.edu!s-dorner