ex cathedra is an adverb meaning "with the full authority of the office". It carries one recorded sense.
with the full authority of the office
“the pope must speak ex cathedra for an encyclical to be infallible”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ex cathedra come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.
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