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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ex cathedra en · ADP

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex cathedrā (“from the (teacher's) chair”).

Meanings

  1. With authority based on one's rank or office.
    • The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks 1826, Julius Hare, Guesses at Truth by Two Brothers:
    • Five-star reviews of it [the film Hamnet] could fill one of those posters on Tube platforms. Some come from critics whose views are treated as ex cathedra. 2026 January 31, Janan Ganesh, “The Hamnet wars”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 20:

Relateds

appeal to authority · ex officio