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What does ex cathedra mean?

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Prepositional phrase
  1. With authority based on one's rank or office.
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Henry Manning, who progressed from convert to ultramontane cardinal, encouraged Pius IX to consolidate authority and claim infallibility when pronouncing ex cathedra.
No typical academic or ex cathedra presentation, but interactive and practical workshops with concrete and easy to implement tools.
Their opinions are given with an ex cathedra air that seems to exclude any appeal against them.
There's no way to maintain an ex cathedra advantage when you're cavorting in a circus ring.
Uncle Sam examined it and pronounced, ex cathedra, that it must have been a real letter.
He spoke – as his Vatican counterpart still does – ex cathedra, and that was that.

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