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Ex cathedra

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Adverb
  1. 1
    with the full authority of the office wordnet
Prep_phrase
  1. 1
    With authority based on one's rank or office.

    "The best training for style is speech; not monologues, or lectures ex cathedra, like those of the German professors, of whose uninterrupted didacticity their literature bears too many marks"

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ex cathedrā (“from the (teacher's) chair”).

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