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ex cathedra

prep_phrase

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex cathedrā (“from the (teacher's) chair”).

  1. borrowed from ex cathedrā

Definitions

  1. With authority based on one's rank or office.

    • The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks
    • Five-star reviews of it [the film Hamnet] could fill one of those posters on Tube platforms. Some come from critics whose views are treated as ex cathedra.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ex cathedra. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA