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Show A ca The palace of Deiphobus afcend . In fmoaky flames, and catches on his friends. Dryd Does the fedition catch from man to man Addifon's Cato And run among the ranks 2. To lay hold fuddenly: as, the hook catches When the yellow hair in flame fhould fall The catching five might burn the golden cawl CartcH. #. f. [from the verb. 1. Seizure ; the aét of feizing any thin that flies or hides Taugh! by his open eye His eye, that ev'n did mark her trodden grafs That fhe would fain the catch of Strephon fly Sidihy 2. Watch ; the pofture of feizing Both of them lay upon the catch for a grea aftion; it is no wonder, therefore, that they wer often engaged on one fubject Addifon on Ancient Medals 3. An advantage taken; hold laid on a in hafte All which notions are but ignorant catches of few things, which are moft obvious to men's obBacon fervations The motion is but a catch of the wit upon few inftances ; as the manner is in the philofoph Bacon received Fate of empires, and the fall of kings Should turn on flying houks, and catch of moments Dryden 4. The a& of taking quickly from another Several quires, placed one over againft another and taking the voice by carches anthem wife, giv great pleafure Bacon 5 A fon fun in fucceflion wher on catches 1t from another This is the tune of our catch, play'd by the picture of nobody Shakefpeare's Tempeft Fat be from thence the glutton parafite Singing his drunken cazchbes all the night Dryden jun The meat was {erv'd, the bowls were crown'd Catches were fung, and healths went round. Prior 6. The thing caught ; profit; advantage Heétor fhall have a great cazch, if he knock ou your brains; he were as good crack a fufty nu with no kernel, - Shakefpeare's Troilus and Creffida 2. Afnatch a fhort interval of aétion ¥t has been writ by catchbes, with many intervals Locke 8. A tamt a flight contagion ‘We retain a careh of thofe pretty ftories, and ou awakened imagination fmiles in the recolle€tion Glanwille's Scepfis 9. Any thing that catches and holds, as hook ro. ‘A fmall fwift-failing fhip : often written ketch Ca'rcuer. n L [from catch. 1. He that catches z. 'That in which any thing is caaght Scallaps will mov f{o firongly, as oftentimes t leap out of the carcher wherein they are caught Greaw's WMufgum Ca''rcurLY. # [ [from catch and fy. A plant; a fpecies of campion ; whic fee ‘Ca'renrort. o £ [from carch and poll. A ferjeant; a bumbailiff Catcbpetl, though now it be ufed as a word o conterept, yet, I ancient times, 1t feems to hav beer wfed without reproach, for-fuch as we no call ferjeants of the mace, or an to arceit men wpan any caufe other that ufe Comzvell They call 2l ternporal bufinefles underfherifiries as if they were but matters for undertheriffs an earchpolls5 though maany times thofe nadecfheriff 3ies <o more good than their bigh fpeculations Bacen's Effays A fingl Another moenfter Sullen of afpet, by the valgar call' A catchpoll; whofe polluted hands the god ‘With force incredible and magick charm Erft have endued, if he his ample pal Should haply on ill-fated fhoulder la Philips Of debtor With printers.] The word at the corne of the page under the Jaft line, which i repeated at the top of the next page CaTh. 7./. Food; fomething to be eaten "This is fcarcely read in the fingular See Cares For foldiers fromachs always ferve them well. Shak. CatecuE'TICAL. adj. [from xarnyéw. Confifting of queftions and anfwers Socrates introduced a catechetical method of arguing; he would afk his adverfary queftion upo queftion, till he convinced him, out of his ow mouth, that his opinions were wrong Addifor's Spectator advu. [from cateche tical.] In the way of queftion and anfwer 70 CA'TECHISE «. a. [xarnyéw. an 1. To inftru& by afking queftions corre&ing the anfwers I will catechife theé world for him ; that is, mak queftions, and bid them anfwer. Shakefp. Othells Had thofe three thoufand fouls been catechifed b our modern cafuifts, we had feen a wide difference Decay of Piety 2. T queftion ; to interrogate ; to exa mine ; to try by interrogatories ‘Why then I fuck my teeth, and catechif My piked man of countries. Shakefp. King Fobn ‘There flies about a ftrange report Of fome exprefs arriv'd at court I'm fropp'd by all the fools I meet And catechis'd in ev'ry ftreet Savift xadiyidw. form of inftruétion by means of queftion and anfwers, concerning religion Ways of teaching there have been fundry alway ufual in God's church; for the firft introductio of youth to the knowledge of God, the Jews eve Hooker till this day have their catechifms H had n catechifi but the creation neede no ftudy but refle@ion, and read no book but th South volume of the world Ca'recHIST. n. /. [xeluyisnc.] Onewhof charge is to inftruét by queftions, or t «queftion the uninftruéted concerning religion None of years and knowledge was admitted who had not been infiruéed by the catechiff in thi foundation, whic bifhop CaTecH who'i tianit in th the catechift received from: th Hammond's Fundamertals 'MEN. 2. /. [xalnyép@-.] On yet in the firft rudiments ofchrif; the loweft order of Chriftian primitive church The prayers of the church did not hegin in St Auftin's time, till the catechumens were difmified "Stilling fect CaTecHUME'NICAL. adj. [from catechumen.] Belonging to the catechumens Dig CaTteco'ricar.ad), [from caregory.] Ab {olute ; adequate ; pofitive ; equal to th thing to be exprefled Th king' commiflioner defire t know whether the parliament's commiffioners did believ that bithops were unlawful? They could ‘neve cktain & caregorical anfwsr I dare affirm, and that categorically, in al whereve pay trade is great, and continues fo, p:ha trade muft be nationally profitable, Child's Difcourfe of Trady CA'TEGORY. . /. [xelnyosia.] Afclafi a rank ; an order of ideas; a predica ment Th abfolute. infinitude in a mannet, quit chang_es the nature of beings, and exalts them int a difigrcnt category Cheyne CaTexA'RIAN. adj. [from catena, Lat Relating to a chain; refembling chain In geometry, the catenarian curve is formed b a rope or chain hanging freely between two point of fufpenfion Harris The back §s bent after the manner of the care narian curvé, by which it obtains that curvatur that is fafeft for the included marrow Cheyne's Pbilofophical Principles 7o CA'TENATE. @. a. [fro Lat.] To chain Carena'rion. z /. [from catena Link ; regular connexion catena Dia Lat This catenation, or conferving union, wheneve his pleafure thall divide, let go, or feparate, the {hall fall from their exiftence. Brows's Vulg, Err 7o Ca'TER. w. n. [from cates.] To provide food ; to buy in viétuals He that doth the ravens feed Yea providently caters for the {parrow Shakefp. As you likeit Be comfort to my age Ca'recuisERr. z /. [from Do catechife. One who catechifes Ca'recnism. n f [fro s Catrgo'rRicarLy. adv. [from ;'afegg-[ cal. AR 1. Dire@ly; exprefsly 2. Pofitively ; plainly We'll fee what cates you have CarecHETICALLY propofition, whic may be dglvicfcdpagain ir,;to fi;k};?,g :;;;fiw CA'TCHWORD. 7 /. [from catch and word Dryden Ch Clarendon. Ca'TER. #. /. [from the verb.] Provider colle&tor of provifions, or vittuals : mifprinted perhaps for caterer The oyfters dredged in this Lyner, find a wel comer acceptance, where the tafte is earer for th ftomach, than thofe of the Tamare Carew's Surwey of Cornwall Ca'reRr. . /. [quatre, Fr.] The four o cards and dice Ca'rer-cousin n / A corruption of quatre-coufin, from the ridiculoufnefs o calling coufin or relation to fo remote degree His mafter and he, faving your worfhip's reve rence, are fcarce cazer-coufins Shakefpeare's Merckant of Venice Poetry and reafon, how come thefe to be cater Rymer's Tragedies of the laf Age coufins Ca'TERER. 7. J. [from carer.] Oneemployed to fele& and buy 1n provifion for the family; the providore or pur veyor Let no fcent offenfive the chamber infeft Let fancy, not coft, prepare il our difhe Let the caterer mind the tafte of each gueft An the cook in his drefling comply with thei Ben Fonfow's T'a.emfm,Amdmy withes He made the greedy ravens to be Elias 50‘."'"‘1" King ‘Cb"df‘; and bring him food th Scldom fhall one fee in cities or court athletick vigour, which is feen in poor hopfes wher Carereéra nature is thei cook an neceffit)fsthe" outh Ca'TERESS. n. f. [from cater.], £ WOB employed to cater, or provide vituals Impofior ! do'not charge innocent nature As if fhe would her children thould be riotous ‘With her abundance : fhe, good caterefSy Milbo Means her provifion only to the good Ca"TERPILLAR |