a. (sb.) ? Obs. [ad. L. catēgoricus, a. Gr. κατηγορικός accusatory, affirmative, (later) categorical, f. κατήγορ-ος accuser; see CATEGOREM and -IC.]

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  A.  adj. = CATEGORICAL.

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1678.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, III. 162. None is more categoric and positive in this than judicious Davenant.

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a. 1693.  Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xxxviii. 317. Predicamental and Catagorick fool.

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a. 1797.  H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II. (1847), II. vii. 240. She gave him an evasive answer. He demanded a categoric one.

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  B.  sb. A categorical proposition or statement.

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1677.  Gale, Crt. Gentiles, II. IV. Proem 12. A Dilemma … consistes of a disjunctive syllogisme … and two Categorics.

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a. 1734.  North, Exam., II. v. ¶ 146. 407. He … comes up to the Categoric very roundly, saying And so it was really and in Effect.

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1839.  New Monthly Mag., LV. 548.

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