Cardinal

(noun.) crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male.

(noun.) a variable color averaging a vivid red.

(noun.) (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes.

(adj.) serving as an essential component; 'a cardinal rule'; 'the central cause of the problem'; 'an example that was fundamental to the argument'; 'computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure' .

(adj.) being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; 'cardinal numbers' .

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• Prudence was never a cardinal virtue of the Kentucky boy. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• An other piece of commonplace knowledge--the cardinal points of the compass--may be accepted, likewise, without inquiry or without recognition of its importance. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• From this starting-point I proceeded to step, having first taken the cardinal points by my pocket-compass. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Why man, one would think you were Cardinal Wolsey. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Ye have plundered my mails--torn my cope of curious cut lace, which might have served a cardinal! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Limerick is still a cardinal memory in the long story of Irish embitterment. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Mo dern excavations have demonstrated that the sides or the corners of the temples and palaces of Assyria and Babylonia were directed to the four cardinal points of the compass. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Cardinal Mazarin was himself building upon a foundation that Cardinal Richelieu, the contemporary of King James I of England, had prepared for him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• One was a bronze image of the Duc de Richelieu, grand-nephew of the splendid Cardinal. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• An attempted revival was made under Louis XIV by Cardinal Richelieu. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Charles on his way from Spain to Germany visited England and secured the support of Henry against Francis by bribing his minister, Cardinal Wolsey. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He also visited Rome, where he was received with the greatest good-will by Pope Paul V and his cardinals, and where he met the leading scientists of the capital. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Many of the cardinals were of French origin, and their habits and associations were rooted deep at Avignon. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• He knelt before ten cardinals in scarlet, an assembly august enough to overawe truth itself, while he amended the creation he had disarranged. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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