a. and sb. = prec.

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a. 1670.  Hacket, Abp. Williams, II. (1692), 54. When you do not pay your Procurations only, but your Cathedraticals, and Synodals also.

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  Hence Cathedratically adv., authoritatively.

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1828.  Edin. Rev., XLVIII. 505. The wisdom of this world cannot tolerate the idea that so little is left for it cathedratically to perform.

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