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Of or pertaining to a category.

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  1. a. Of or pertaining to a category.
  2. a. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.
  3. adj. relating to or included in a category or categories
  4. adj. not modified or restricted by reservations
  5. 1. Of or pertaining to a category. 2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer. The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. I. Taylor.
  6. j:100 a. relating to or included in a category or categories