a. and sb. = prec.
a. 1670. Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1692), 54. When you do not pay your Procurations only, but your Cathedraticals, and Synodals also.
Hence Cathedratically adv., authoritatively.
1828. Edin. Rev., XLVIII. 505. The wisdom of this world cannot tolerate the idea that so little is left for it cathedratically to perform.