Definition of Cardinal

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Cardinal

Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.

One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.

A woman's short cloak with a hood.

Mulled red wine.

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Cardinal Quotations

A cardinal principle of Total Quality escapes too many managers: you cannot continuously improve interdependent systems and processes until you progressively perfect interdependent, interpersonal relationships.
Stephen Covey

The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
Lord Byron

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
W. H. Auden

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
Thomas Hobbes

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural history programmes, I didn't use them as vehicles for my own opinion. They were factual programmes.
David Attenborough

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Don Marquis

If any sort of error is inexcusable, it's an incorrect phone number. One of the cardinal rules of copy editing is that every phone number published must be checked.
Bill Walsh

Cardinal Translations

cardinal in French is cardinal
cardinal in Italian is cardinale
cardinal in Spanish is cardinal, cardenal

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