WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Old′ Cath′olic,
- Religiona member of any of several European churches professing to be truly Catholic but rejecting certain modern Roman Catholic doctrines, dogmas, and practices, esp. the dogma of papal infallibility.
- Religiona member of any of several minor churches, esp. in the U.S., differing from the Roman Catholic Church chiefly in their rejection of the ecclesiastical authority of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
- 1840–50
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