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CIDE DICTIONARY
canonic,
a. [L.
canonicus, LL.
canonicalis, fr. L.
canon: cf. F.
canonique. See
canon.].
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Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. Hallam. [1913 Webster]
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Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament. [PJC]
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Accepted as authoritative; recognized. [PJC]
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In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate. [PJC]
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Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of
nonstandard. [
WordNet 1.5]
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Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon. [PJC]
Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures,
those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. --
Canonical epistles,
an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. --
Canonical form (Math.),
the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. --
Canonical hours,
certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. --
Canonical letters,
letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics. --
Canonical life,
the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. --
Canonical obedience,
submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. --
Canonical punishments,
such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. --
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.),
those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
OXFORD DICTIONARY
canonic, adj. = CANONICAL adj.
OE f. OF canonique or L canonicus f. Gk kanonikos (as CANON)
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