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  1. A list or register of separate items; an itemized statement or enumeration; specifically, a list or enumeration of the names of men or things, with added particulars, disposed in a certain order, generally alphabetical: as, a catalogue of the students of a college, of the stars, or of a museum or a library. See card-catalogue. Myself could show a catalogue of doubts, never yet imagined or questioned. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 21. She is to be added to the catalogue of republics, the inscription upon whose ruin is, “They were, but they are not.” Story, Salem, Sept. 18, 1828. Ugly catalogues of sins and oaths and drunkenness and brutality. Froude, Sketches, p. 47.
  2. Catalogue raisonné (F., literally reasoned catalogue), a catalogue of books, paintings, or the like, classed according to their subjects, usually with more or less full comments or explanations.
  3. Synonyms List, Catalogue. List means a mere enumeration of individual persons or articles, while catalogue properly supposes some description, with the names in a certain order. Thus we speak of a subscription list, but of the catalogue of a museum or a library.
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  • He informed the nurseryman- whose explanation was that the price quoted in the catalogue was a printer's error- that he refused to pay the larger price, and would not even be at the trouble and expense of digging them up and returning them to Edinburgh; but that the vendor might send men to do the work if he chose. —  MY STRANGE PETS AND Other Memories of Country Life
  • The last two items in this catalogue are the most disturbing because of the peculiar factual quality of my recollection, similar to the peculiarity of my memory of the photo. —  F ;SF; - vol 098 issue 02 - February 2000
  • But the central gems of the catalogue were the descriptions of the Governing Council and the Maintenance Squad GOVERNMENTAL AND SOCIETAL DYNAMICS: Mon, Wed, Fri, 3:3o, Room 202; alternate Wednesdays, 8:30, main lounge. —  BETTER TO HAVE LOVED
  • “The notebook he used as a catalogue should be here,” said Minou. —  Maigret and the Killer - Georges Simenon - 98
  • Proofs for the catalogue were in place, but she wanted to be sure the assemblage couldn't be bettered before handing it all to the printer. —  Helen Bianchin - The Wedding Ultimatum
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catalog ·  collection ·  list ·  recital ·  pamphlet ·  document ·  edition ·  exhibition ·  statistic ·  biography ·  advertisement ·  sketch

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catalogue:   catalogues ·  catalogued
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  1. Also recently catalog; = Dutch kataloog = German catalog, kalalog = Danish Swedish katalog = Russian katalogŭ, from French catalogue = Provencal cathalogue = Spanish catálogo = Portuguese Italian catalogo, from Late Latin catalogus, from Greek κατάλογος, a list, register, from καταλέγειν, reckon up, tell at length, from κατά, down, + λέγειν, tell, say.
  2. from catalogue, n.; = French cataloguer.
 

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