CATHARTICS, in medicine, remedies which promote
Cathecu mote evacuation by stool. See MATERIA MEDICA.
Cathecu, in botany. See ARECA.
Cathedra, in a general sense, a chair.—The word is more particularly used for a professor's chair, and a preacher's pulpit.
Cathedra is also used for the bishop's see, or throne, in a church.