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Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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

Canonizing :: Canonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canoniz.

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

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.

Canonistic :: Canonistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a canonist.

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.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

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.

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

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..

Cannon Bone :: Cannon bone () See Canon Bone.

Canon :: Canon (n.) See Carom.

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

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