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Domino :: Domino (n.) A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.

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

Rescript :: Rescript (v. t.) The official written answer of the pope upon a question of canon law, or morals..

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 reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.

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

Decretal :: 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..

Tierce :: Tierce (n.) The third hour of the day, or nine a. m,; one of the canonical hours; also, the service appointed for that hour..

Testament :: Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter..

Canon :: Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

Title :: 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..

Canonically :: Canonically (adv.) In a canonical manner; according to the canons.

Canon :: Canon (n.) In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order..

Talmud :: Talmud (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

Quadragene :: Quadragene (n.) An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance..

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

Interstice :: 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..

Provision :: Provision (n.) A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation..

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

Clementine :: 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..

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