Categorical \Cat`e*gor"ic*al\, a.

1. Of or pertaining to a category.

2. Not hypothetical or relative; admitting no conditions or exceptions; declarative; absolute; positive; express; as, a categorical proposition, or answer.

The scriptures by a multitude of categorical and intelligible decisions . . . distinguish between the things seen and temporal and those that are unseen and eternal. --I. Taylor.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)