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| PRONUNCIATION: |  s |
| NOUN: | 1. The official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop. 2. Obsolete A cathedra. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French se, from Vulgar Latin *sedem, from Latin sds, seat. See sed- in Appendix I.
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