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Canonization :: 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.

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..

Canon :: Canon (n.) See Carom.

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

Canon :: 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..

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.

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

Matin :: Matin (n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

Canonized :: Canonized (imp. & p. p.) of Canoniz.

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

Homologoumena :: Homologoumena (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church..

Canon :: 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..

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

Canon Bone :: 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..

Saint :: Saint (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one)..

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices..

Classicalism :: Classicalism (n.) Adherence to what are supposed or assumed to be the classical canons of art.

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

Round :: 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..

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