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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to Catiline (died 62 b. c.), a Roman conspirator: as, the Catilinarian war.
  • noun One who resembles or imitates Catiline.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertaining to Catiline, the Roman conspirator; resembling Catiline's conspiracy.

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