different between cataholic vs catholic

English

Etymology

cat +? -aholic

Noun

cataholic (plural cataholics)

1. (informal) One who is extremely fond of cats.
   • 2000, Bob Walker & Frances Mooney, Crazy Cats, Andrews McMeel Publishing (2000), ?ISBN, unnumbered page (acknowledgements):

     Without the fur and purr, we wouldn't be the cataholics that we are today.

   • 2007, Bruce Fogle, If Your Cat Could Talk, DK Publishing (2007), ?ISBN, page 6:

     Where once only farmers and "cataholics" kept cats, today they are in all types of households, especially in homes with a history of dog-keeping and little knowledge of feline behavior.

   • 2007, Debra White Smith, Heather, Harvest House Publishers (2007), ?ISBN, page 250:

     “Maybe I need to send you to House Cats Anonymous,” he teased. “Hello, my name is Jake and I'm a cataholic. I can't stop eating them alive.”

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:cataholic.

Synonyms

• ailurophile, catlover, catophile

Hyponyms

• cat lady

Anagrams

• acatholic, chaotical

English

Etymology

From Old French catholique, from Latin catholicus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (katholikós), from ???? (katá, “according to”) + ???? (hólos, “whole”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ka?(?)l?k/, /?k???(?)l?k/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæ?(?)l?k/
• Rhymes: -æ??l?k, -æ?l?k
• Hyphenation: cath?o?lic

Adjective

catholic (comparative more catholic, superlative most catholic)

1. Universal; all-encompassing.

   Synonyms: universal; see also Thesaurus:generic, Thesaurus:comprehensive

   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.29:

     Essentially, and in idea, the empire, in the minds of the Romans, was world-wide. This conception descended to the Church, which was ‘Catholic’ in spite of Buddhists, Confucians, and (later) Muhammadans.

   • 1995, Brian D. Crandall & Peter W. Stahl, Human Digestive Effects on a Micromammalian Skeleton, Journal of Archaeological Science (1995) 22, 789-797:

     This semifossorial mammal tends to reside in areas with herbaceous cover, frequenting runways in the upper soil horizons where it feeds on a highly catholic diet of animal and plant materials […]

2. Pertaining to all kinds of people and their range of tastes, proclivities etc.; liberal.

   Synonyms: eclectic; see also Thesaurus:heterogeneous

   • 2003, Simon Winchester, The Meaning of Everything; The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, New York: Oxford University Press. p.72:

     He was omnivorous in his appetite for knowledge, quite catholic in his range of interests […]

3. Alternative letter-case form of Catholic

Anagrams

• Chilcoat