cathedrated en · ADJ
Etymology
From cathedra + -ated.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Synonym of ex cathedra.
They speak literally and metaphorically ex cathedra. The tone is cathedrated from the beginning; it is not merely judicial, and authoritative, as it has a right to be, but it is self-sufficient and strongly magisterial; it is positive, decisive, oracular; it is dogmatical, arrogant, and sometimes haughty— qualities which we have not been accustomed to find in Dr. Gorss's writings, and the presence of which has taken us a little by surprise.
1860 May, “Reviews: A System of Surgery, Pathological, Diagnostic, Therapeutic, and Operative. By Samuel D. Gross”, in Louisville Medical Journal, volume 1, page 194:B.D., who in last week's impression of the Catholic Telegraph, condemns under the above caption, in quite a matter-of-fact manner and with the "cathedrated authority of a prælector , "the opinions of the Rev. Dr. Stang, of Louvain University, as unorthodox and as based on Biblical misinterpretations, may have unnerved some pious souls, and chilled their hearts as Massillon did Father James', "like an icy blast coming from a graveyard in midwinter."
1899, American Ecclesiastical Review - Volume 21, page 198:The office and station have no place or standing in the external forum where the sentence is put upon its trial. The Judge-Bishop cannot speak there, by judicial or by cathedrated authority.
1853, Horace Binney, The Case of the Right Rev. Henry U. Onderdonk, D.D.:, page 12:The highest cathedrated sentence of your Admonition, written in all your names rayleth at the Protestants, affirming your contentions to be but Ceremonies.
1603, William Bradshaw, A Briefe Censure Upon the Puritane Pamphlet, page 23:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Having been incathedrated.
During this year, when papal Ireland was on tiptoe for another jubilee: "During this year of Jubilee," (speaks the cathedrated oracle ) , " we mercifully in the Lord grant and impart the most plenary and complete indulgence, remission , and pardon of all their sins, to all the faithful in Christ, of both sexes, who are truly penitent, and have confessed, and who have likewise refressed themselves with the holy communion—provided" they shall visit certain churches, and pray for the church, for the extirpation of heresies, and for the salvation and tranquillity of Christendom.
1839, The Church of England Quarterly Review - Volume 5, page 134:But if this same marvelling writer were to attend his cathedrated phyfician to the chambers of the sick; to hear him run over his few questions; to see how elegantly he can feel a pulse; and with what dispatch he can, in consequence, write out his prescription;—seeing this ease and elegance of manner, and the dispatch with which the most interesting things may be dispatched, he would afterwards take very ill with the tedious and stammering attentions of his taylor in taking his measure fro a suit of clothes, or the irksome and impertinent catechism of his lawyer in making out a deed!
1808, Robert Couper, Speculations on the Mode and Appearances of Impregnation in the Human Female, page 79:
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(not-comparable, obsolete) Holding a chair (distinguished professorship)
He, however, was only appointed in 1834; but almost immediately after became a cathedrated professor, and lectured most ably in most of the chairs until in 1853 he retired on a pension.
1876, Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, Brazilian Biographical Annual - Volume 1, page 184:Dr. Joaquim Monteiro Caminhoa'— Commander of the order of Rose, Chevalier of the order of christ, commander of the order of Francis Joseph of Austria, decorated with several medals of campaign, Cathedrated professor of the faculty of medicine of Rio de Janeiro, and first surgeon of the navy.
1876, The Empire of Brazil at the Universal Exhibition of 1876 in Philadelphia, page 491:The studies are extended over a period of six years, and the sugjects divided among twenty-one cathedrated professors and fifteen assistants, appointed by the Government after a competitive examination.
1877, Francis Amasa Walker, Reports and Awards, page 8:cathedrated professor
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(not-comparable) In a sitting position; seated.
My eyes shot away from the cathedrated figure below me, up, up into the region of cabinets (abnormally lowered like everything else to keep them within the sunken eparch's reach), decorative frieze, ceiling, multiarmed overhead light.
2020, Wilyem Clark, Hatefull, page 169: