Definition of canon

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

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Canon :: Canon (n.) See Carom.
Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized..
Uncanonize :: Uncanonize (v. t.) To deprive of canonical authority.
Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of the blessed and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized..
Canonicals :: Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress..
Talmud :: Talmud (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
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.
Imitation :: Imitation (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon..
Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..
Canonist :: Canonist (n.) A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Homologoumena :: Homologoumena (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.
Premonstratensian :: Premonstratensian (n.) One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants..
Canonic :: Canonic (a.) Alt. of Cannonica.
Complin :: Complin (n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset..
Domino :: Domino (n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Residentiary :: Residentiary (a.) Having residence; as, a canon residentary; a residentiary guardian..
Revelation :: Revelation (n.) Specifically, the last book of the sacred canon, containing the prophecies of St. John; the Apocalypse..
Canonicate :: Canonicate (n.) The office of a canon; a canonry.
Antilegomena :: Antilegomena (n. pl.) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena..
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