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Catherine
Catherine female forename.
St Catherine of Alexandria (d. c.307), early and probably legendary Christian martyr. According to tradition she opposed the persecution of Christians under the emperor Maxentius and refused to recant or to marry the emperor; when pagan philosophers were sent to dispute with her she converted them. She is traditionally regarded as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers. She is said to have been tortured on a spiked wheel (destroyed by her angelic protectors) and finally beheaded. Her emblems are a wheel (see Catherine wheel below) and a sword, and a palm-branch as a symbol of her virginity. Her feast day is 25 November. St Catherine of Siena (1333?–80), Sienese virgin and member of the Dominican Third Order, who was a noted spiritual leader of the 14th century, and who was popularly believed to have contributed significantly to the ending of the Great Schism and the return of the papacy to Rome from Avignon. She is the patron saint of Italy, and was declared a Doctor of the Church in 1970. Her usual emblem is a lily, and her feast day was 30 April; from 1969 it has been 29 April. Catherine the Great (1729–96), empress of Russia. Born a princess of Anhalt-Zerbst, she became empress (as Catherine II) after her husband, Peter III, was deposed. She is taken as the type of a powerful female ruler. Catherine wheel a firework in the form of a flat coil which spins when fixed to something solid, and lit; it is named for the spiked wheel which was one of the instruments of martyrdom of St Catherine of Alexandria. |
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Catherine." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Catherine." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Catherine.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Catherine." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-Catherine.html |
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Catherine, a novel by Thackeray, published serially in Fraser's Magazine, 1839–40.
Thackeray took the outline of the story of the murderess Catherine Hayes from the Newgate Calendar, and deliberately made his novel as grim and sordid as possible, in reaction against the popular ‘Newgate novels’ of Bulwer-Lytton, Ainsworth, and others. |
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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Catherine." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Catherine." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Catherine.html MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Catherine." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-Catherine.html |
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Catherine1.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Catherine1.html |
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Catherine ♀ (French) From Greek. See Katherine.
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PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Catherine.html PATRICK HANKS, KATE HARDCASTLE, and FLAVIA HODGES. "Catherine." A Dictionary of First Names. 2006. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O41-Catherine.html |
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Catherine
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"Catherine." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Catherine." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 31, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Catherine.html "Catherine." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 31, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-Catherine.html |
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