Word Finder - canon

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A generally accepted principle; a rule.

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The trial must proceed according to the canons of law.

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A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.

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The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.

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the entire Shakespeare canon

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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

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A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.

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We must proceed according to canon law.

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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

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In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.

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A member of a cathedral chapter; one who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

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A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.

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Pachelbel’s Canon has become very popular.

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(Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius

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Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.

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A spin-off book series revealed the aliens to be originally from Earth, but it's not canon.

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A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called cannon.

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a canon of beef or lamb

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A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.

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The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.

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A carom.

In 1894 he became canon of Westminster.

He speaks of the canon of logarithms as "a me longo tempore elaboratum."

In one sense tt may be said to stand to theological literature in Scotland in something of the same position as that occupied by the Canon Mirificus with respect to the scientific literature, for it is the first published original work relating to theological interpretation, and is quite without a predecessor in its own field.

They are important witnesses to the text of the New Testament, to the history of the canon, and to the history of interpretation.

The rules are generally those of the canon law.

Worthy of special note are canon 33, enjoining celibacy upon all clerics and all who minister at the altar (the most ancient canon of celibacy); canon 36, forbidding pictures in churches; canon 38, permitting lay baptism under certain conditions; and canon 53, forbidding one bishop to restore a person excommunicated by another.

The inclusion of other books in the Canon was gradual, and was effected only after centuries of debate.

The Law and the Prophets being alone used in the services of the synagogue, there was no authorized version of the rest of the Canon.

His son Moses, who died about the end of the 13th century, translated the rest of Maimonides, much of Averroes, the lesser Canon of Avicenna, Euclid's Elements (from the Arabic version), Ibn al-Jazzar's Viaticum, medical works of IIunain ben Isaac (Johannitius) and Razi (Rhazes), besides works of less-known Arabic authors.

At Avshin it enters a canon, with walls over l000 ft.

Leo I., although he recognized the council as ecumenical and confirmed its doctrinal decrees, rejected canon xxviii.

In later usage it describes those of the New Testament books which have obtained a doubtful place in the Canon.

In 1865 he was made a counsellor to the consistory, in 1871 canon of Meissen cathedral, and in 1887 a privy councillor to the church.

The 42nd canon of the council of Carthage under Aurelius likewise forbade them, but these were only local councils.

The 41st canon of the council of Carthage enacted that the sacraments of the altar should be received fasting, except on the anniversary of the Lord's supper.

In a series of masterly papers in the Contemporary Review, between December 1874 and May 1877, Lightfoot successfully undertook the defence of the New Testament canon.

He spent ten or twelve years in study, chiefly theological, at Palencia, and then, about 1195, he was ordained and became a canon in the cathedral chapter of Osma, his native diocese.

The canon of Scripture was decided in accordance with the touchstone of the Pentateuch.

He became a canon of Windsor in 1702, and in 1708 he was nominated to the see of St Asaph, from which he was translated in 1714 to that of Ely.

He was the original of Mortimer Collins's Canon Tremaine in Sweet and Twenty.

These serve to fix the chronology, which is here as everywhere quite in accordance with the dates of the canon of Ptolemy.

For other countries in the Levant there are Canon Tristram's Fauna and Flora of Palestine (4to, 1884) and Captain Shelley's Handbook to the Birds of Egypt (8vo, 1872).

He knows of no canon of the New Testament, i.e.

Unhappily Frederick preferred to put his Sicilian house in order, and the legate preferred to listen to the Italians, who had their own 3 A canon of the third Lateran council (1179) forbade traffic with the Saracens in munitions of war; and this canon had been renewed by Innocent in the beginning of his pontificate.

He attended the council of Ferrara, and was soon made canon of the church at Rouen, professor of canon law in the new university of Caen and vicar-general for the bishop of Bayeux.

It appears to have been at some time between the dates of these two journeys that he visited Bologna and Auxerre, and began those studies in the canon law to which he was in no small degree indebted for his subsequent advancement and misfortunes.

The account of the death and cremation of the Buddha, preserved in the Buddhist canon, states that one-eighth portion of the ashes was presented to the Sakiya clan, and that they built a thupa, or memorial mound, over it.'

The title "To the Ephesians" is found in the Muratorian canon, in Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, as well as in all the earliest MSS.

It purports to be by Paul, and was held to be his by Marcion and in the Muratorian canon, and by Irenaeus, Tertullian and Clement of Alexandria, all writing at the end of the 2nd century.

During this controversy Dionysius became convinced that the victory of mystical theology over "Jewish" chiliasm would never be secure so long as the book of Revelation passed for an apostolic writing and kept its place among the homologoumena of the canon.

In the course of the 4th century it was removed from the Greek canon, and thus the troublesome foundation on which chiliasm might have continued to build was got rid of.

For many centuries the Greek Church kept Revelation out of its canon, and consequently chiliasm remained in its grave.

As to the canonicity and apostolic authorship of the Johannine Apocalypse no doubts were ever entertained in the West; indeed an Apocalypse of Peter was still retained in the canon in the 3rd century.

He was educated at the universities of St Andrews and Glasgow, and in his sixteenth year was sent to Paris, where he studied civil and canon law.

The cipher Atbash (Canon VIII.) is used in Jeremiah xxv.

Its exclusion from the Jewish Canon of Scripture resulted naturally from its Alexandrian thought and from the fact that it was written in Greek.

In the suburb of Muazzam, on the western side of the river, is the tomb of Abu Hanifa, the canon lawyer.

While he is never ranked as a writer of tragedy with Ennius, Pacuvius or Accius, he is placed in the canon of the grammarian Volcaaus Sedigitus third (immediately after Caecilius and Plautus) in the rank of Roman comic authors.

We know nothing of the work called The Ecclesiastical Canon from any external testimony.

The tenth canon tolerates the marriages of deacons who previous to ordination had reserved the right to take a wife; the thirteenth forbids chorepiscopi to ordain presbyters or deacons; the eighteenth safeguards the right of the people in objecting to the appointment of a bishop whom they do not wish.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem seems already to have had its canon of liturgical colours.

In the canon law the word bears a more extended meaning than in English law.

Certain matters were simoniacal by the canon law which would not be so regarded in English law, e.g.

In spite of all the provisions of the canon law it is well established that simony was deeply rooted in the medieval church.

An innocent clerk is under no disability, as he might be by the canon law.

The common law (with which the canon law is incorporated, as far as it is not contrary to the common or statute law or the prerogative of the crown) has been considerably modified by statute.

Where no statute applies to the case, the doctrines of the canon law may still be of authority.

By the Clerical Subscription Act 1865 a declaration was substituted for the oath, and a new canon incorporating the alteration was ratified by the crown in 1866.

By the canon law all resignation bonds were simoniacal, and in 1826 the House of Lords held that all resignation bonds, general or special, were illegal.

In 1640 he was presented to the sinecure living of Hartfield, Sussex, and in the following year he was made canon of Christ Church and exchanged to the rectory of Mildenhall, Wiltshire.