Relating to or characteristic of cathedra authority, teachings, or governance; of the nature of cathedral pronouncements or episcopal instruction.
Cathedratic plus the suffix -al, layering adjective suffixes in typical academic-Latin fashion. This archaic form appears in medieval ecclesiastical texts describing authoritative teachings.
Medieval scholars loved stacking suffixes like this—'cathedratical' shows how formal Latin-influenced English created increasingly specific descriptive words for tiny conceptual differences.
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