a. Logic. [f. on Gr. type *κατηγορηματικός, f. κατηγόρημα; see prec. Cf. F. catégorématique.] Of a word: Capable of being used by itself as a term.
1827. Whateley, Logic, 63. It is not every word that is categorematic, that is, capable of being employed by itself as a term.
1846. Mill, Logic, I. ii. § 2.
1863. Burton, Bk. Hunter, 2. If it be a question whether a term is categorematic, or is of a quite opposite description … one may take up a very absolute positive position, without finding many people prepared to assail it.
