Definition of cata

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Cata () The Latin and English form of a Greek preposition, used as a prefix to signify down, downward, under, against, contrary or opposed to, wholly, completely; as in cataclysm, catarrh. It sometimes drops the final vowel, as in catoptric; and is sometimes changed to cath, as in cathartic, catholic..

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Inventory :: Inventory (v. t.) To make an inventory of; to make a list, catalogue, or schedule of; to insert or register in an account of goods; as, a merchant inventories his stock..
Mataco :: Mataco (n.) The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.
Menstruate :: Menstruate (v. i.) To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
Catalysis :: Catalysis (n.) A process by which reaction occurs in the presence of certain agents which were formerly believed to exert an influence by mere contact. It is now believed that such reactions are attended with the formation of an intermediate compound or compounds, so that by alternate composition and decomposition the agent is apparenty left unchanged; as, the catalysis of making ether from alcohol by means of sulphuric acid; or catalysis in the action of soluble ferments (as diastase, or ptyali
Hagiology :: Hagiology (n.) The history or description of the sacred writings or of sacred persons; a narrative of the lives of the saints; a catalogue of saints.
Mercatante :: Mercatante (n.) A foreign trader.
Machinery :: Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected..
Pearl-eyed :: Pearl-eyed (a.) Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
Acatalepsy :: Acatalepsy (n.) Incomprehensibility of things; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability..
Blastostyle :: Blastostyle (n.) In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata..
Graffiti :: Graffiti (n. pl.) Inscriptions, figure drawings, etc., found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs, or at Pompeii..
Ascidium :: Ascidium (n.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata..
Catapult :: Catapult (n.) A forked stick with elastic band for throwing small stones, etc..
Cataract :: Cataract (n.) A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..
Opelet :: Opelet (n.) A bright-colored European actinian (Anemonia, / Anthea, sulcata); -- so called because it does not retract its tentacles..
Catallactics :: Catallactics (n.) The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy..
Cataphractic :: Cataphractic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract..
Cataleptic :: Cataleptic (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, catalepsy; affected with catalepsy; as, a cataleptic fit..
Catadioptrics :: Catadioptrics (n.) The science which treats of catadioptric phenomena, or of the used of catadioptric instruments..
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