English edit

Etymology edit

From Catholic +‎ -y.

Adjective edit

Catholicky (comparative more Catholicky, superlative most Catholicky)

  1. (rare) Relating to or characteristic of Catholicism.
    • 2001, Anne Robinson, Memoirs of An Unfit Mother, New York, NY: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 36:
      It was to my mother's credit and theirs that neither side had any idea about the other's religious bent until we made an Easter visit to Lurgan and Dungannon one year and found Mr O'Hagan had Catholicky statues everywhere in his home, while the centrepiece of Mr Carson's grand dining table was a box containing a Union Jack.