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WordNet
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adj. appearing in a Biblical canon; "a canonical book of the Christian New Testament" [syn: canonic ] of or relating to or required by canon law [syn: canonic ] reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; "a basic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
canonic \ca*non"ic\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]k), canonical \ca*non"ic*al\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon .] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN form ▪ However, a simple and powerful canonical form is obtainable. ▪ Consequently, is the coefficient of in the equation of the canonical form in which is basic. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ But in 5 it is at least canonical ...
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Wiktionary
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a. 1 Present in a canon, religious or otherwise. 2 According to recognised or orthodox rules. 3 Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner. 4 prototypical. 5 (context religion English) In conformity with canon law. 6 (context ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "according to ecclesiastical law," from Medieval Latin canonicalis , from Late Latin canonicus "according to rule," in Church Latin, "pertaining to the canon" (see canon (n.1)). Earlier was canonial (early 13c.).
Usage examples of canonical.
The Athenians, who first established and introduced into their ceremonies a canonical text of the epics, regarded Homer as the universal educator of Greece even when the age of kings was long gone, their politics were democratic, chivalry was a distant memory, and the gods were no longer seen among humans.
This is why the canonical scriptures became known as the Masoretic Text.
His style, which bore often chaotic evidence of his Austro-Germanic polymathy, of his absorption of the canonical pseudoscientific prejudices of French, British, and Italian Orientalism, as well as of an almost desperate effort to remain the impartial scholar-observer, was next to unreadable.
Michael said, as if objecting not so much to the slaughter as to its taking place outside canonical limits.
Yet he knew that Dave Leary, sitting soberly off to one side, had never forgiven him for refusing him permission to marry a divorced Catholic after all canonical resources were exhausted.
I could see now that the minister, doing what looked like deltoid releases, was leading his merry band of church elders in the equivalent of a canonical conga line with Essie Daggett bringing up the rear.
This is clear in the Authentics, where ruling princes are enjoined as follows: If it is a canonical matter which is to be tried, you shall inquire into it together with the Metropolitan of the Province.
Apart from its obligatory mention in the canonical bibliographies, even the most precise references had included only summary descriptions of the nine engravings, without minor details.
APPENDIX The Months of the Year: Yanu Avril Sormas Quadrii Cintre Aogoste Setentre Octumbre Novarian Decial Askulavre Fevrua The Days of the Week: Mansday Secunday Ladysday Sonsday Jedday Lordsday Hefensday The Canonical Hours: Vigils (circa : a.
The drinking of the cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing.
And this kind of prophecy, as it were compacted and commingled of both the others in the ancient canonical books, containing historical narratives, is of very great significance, and has exercised and exercises greatly the wits of those who search holy writ.
The most celebrated of his many works is the Breuiarium extrauagantium (later called Compilatio prima antiqua), a collection of canonical texts comprising ancient canons not inserted in the Decretum of Gratian, as also various later documents.
Former Archbishop Edmund Loris, Monsignor Lawrence Gorony, and Prince-Bishop Judhael of Meara were executed by my command in July of last yearthe latter primarily for reasons of state, which I regret, though his canonical betrayals and disobediences were such that his superiors did not dispute the political necessity, under the circumstances.
He also is found to have prophesied in his hooks, of which three are received as of canonical authority, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs.
The Church had long decreed that women who worked in clerical households must be of canonical age.