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- Canon - n. - A law or rule.
- Canon - n. - A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
- Canon - n. - The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
- Canon - n. - In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- Canon - n. - A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- Canon - n. - A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- Canon - n. - A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
- Canon - n. - The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
- Canon - n. - The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
- Canon - n. - See Carom.
- Canon bit - - That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
- Canon bone - - The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
- Canoness - n. - A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
- Canonic - a. - Alt. of Cannonical
- Canonically - adv. - In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
- Canonicalness - n. - The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
- Canonicals - n. pl. - The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
- Canonicate - n. - The office of a canon; a canonry.
- Canonicity - n. - The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
- Canonist - n. - A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
- Canonistic - a. - Of or pertaining to a canonist.
- Canonization - n. - The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
- Canonization - n. - The state of being canonized or sainted.
- Canonize - v. t. - To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
- Canonize - v. t. - To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
- Cannon bone - - See Canon Bone.
- Decretal - a. - An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law.
- Catch - n. - A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words.
- Preponderancy - n. - The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.
- Purgation - n. - The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal.
- Preface - n. - The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
- Canonist - n. - A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
- Rescript - v. t. - The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals.
- Cannonical - a. - Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.
- Rehabilitate - v. t. - To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.
- Reservation - n. - A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices.
- Interstice - n. - An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders.
- Deuterogamy - n. - A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy.
- Canonicals - n. pl. - The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
- Round - n. - A short vocal piece, resembling a catch in which three or four voices follow each other round in a species of canon in the unison.
- Title - n. - A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book.
- Clementine - a. - Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law.
- Infinito - a. - Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5.
- Illuminati - v. t. - Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years.
- Residentiary - a. - Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian.
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