Cahier Definition & Meaning

Origin of Cahier

French notebook from Old French quaier from Vulgar Latin quaternum from Latin quaternī group of four from quater four times kwetwer- in Indo-European roots

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
Borrowing from French

From Wiktionary

Father Cahier would even trace the book to Tatian, and it is true that that heresiarch mentions a writing of his own upon animals.
On the other hand, the opinion of Cardinal Pitra, who referred the Physiologus to the more orthodox though somewhat peculiar teaching of the Alexandrians, is fully borne out by a close examination of the irregularities of doctrine pointed out in the Physiologus by Cahier, all which are to be met with in Origen.
In 1789 he drew up the first article of the cahier of the electors of the bailliage of Roye, demanding the abolition of feudal rights.
Espousing the principles of the Revolution in 1789, he was commissioned by the noblesse of the province to draw up the cahier (statement of principles and grievances); and the senechaussee of Montpellier elected him deputy to the states-general of Versailles; but the election was annulled on a technical point.
Nicola di Bari (Bari, 1901); Charles Cahier, Caracteristiques des saints (Paris, 186 7), p. 354; Frances ArnoldForster, Studies in Church Dedications (London, 1899), i.

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