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Mansionary :: Mansionary (a.) Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons..

Classicalist :: Classicalist (n.) One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.

Preface :: Preface (n.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.

Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..

Saint :: Saint (n.) One canonized by the church.

Infinito :: Infinito (a.) Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5..

Maccabees :: Maccabees (n. pl.) The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint..

Canon :: Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

Ecclesiastes :: Ecclesiastes (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

Preponderancy :: Preponderancy (n.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted.

Purgation :: 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..

Leviticus :: Leviticus (n.) The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law..

Canonist :: Canonist (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.

Infinite :: Infinite (a.) Capable of endless repetition; -- said of certain forms of the canon, called also perpetual fugues, so constructed that their ends lead to their beginnings, and the performance may be incessantly repeated..

Residentiary :: Residentiary (a.) Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian..

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

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