Cat`e*gor"ic*al (?), a.

1.

Of or pertaining to a category.

2.

Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal.

I. Taylor.

 

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