Definition of canon

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

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School :: School (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school..
Canon :: Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
Canon :: Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized 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..
Canonicalness :: Canonicalness (n.) The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
Uncanonize :: Uncanonize (v. t.) To deprive of canonical authority.
Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..
Canonicity :: Canonicity (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
Canonicals :: Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress..
Preface :: Preface (n.) The prelude or introduction to the canon of the Mass.
Breviary :: Breviary (n.) A book containing the daily public or canonical prayers of the Roman Catholic or of the Greek Church for the seven canonical hours, namely, matins and lauds, the first, third, sixth, and ninth hours, vespers, and compline; -- distinguished from the missal..
Canonized :: Canonized (imp. & p. p.) of Canoniz.
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..
Quadragene :: Quadragene (n.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance..
Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
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..
Cannon :: Cannon (n.) A kind of type. See Canon.
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.
Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.
Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
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