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What's The Definition Of Canon?
[n] a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
[n] a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church [n] a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society" [n] a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts [n] (North America) a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall [n] a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter Synonyms | Synonyms for Canon: canyon Related Terms | Find terms related to Canon: a belief | abuna | act | Agnus Dei | album | Alleluia | ana | analects | Anamnesis | anthology | antipope | archbishop | archdeacon | archpriest | article of faith | assize | axiom | barometer | beauties | Bible | bill | bishop | bishop coadjutor | Blessing | breviary | bylaw | cardinal | cardinal bishop | cardinal deacon | cardinal priest | catch | chaplain | check | chrestomathy | church book | coadjutor | code | Collect | collectanea | collected works | collection | commandment | Communion | compilation | complete works | Consecration | convention | Credo | criterion | curate | dean | decree | decretum | degree | delectus | dictate | dictation | dictum | diocesan | Dismissal | doctrine | dogma | Douay Bible | ecclesiarch | edict | enactment | Epistle | euchologion | euchology | exarch | farse | Festschrift | florilegium | flowers | form | formality | formula | formulary | Fraction | fugato | fugue | garden | garland | gauge | general principle | Gloria | golden rule | Gospel | Gradual | graduated scale | Grand Penitentiary | guideline | guiding principle | hierarch | high priest | Holy Father | Holy Scripture | Holy Writ | imperative | institution | Introit | jus | King James Version | Kyrie | Kyrie Eleison | Last Gospel | Lavabo | law | law of nature | lectionary | legislation | lex | litany | machzor | manual | maxim | measure | metropolitan | miscellanea | miscellany | missal | mitzvah | model | moral | norm | norma | Offertory | omnibus | order of nature | ordinal | ordinance | ordonnance | papa | parameter | Paternoster | patriarch | pattern | Pax | penitentiary | photograph album | pontiff | pontifical | pope | Post-Communion | prayer book | prebendary | precept | Preface | prelate | prescribed form | prescript | prescription | primate | principium | principle | Procrustean law | quantity | quotation book | reading | readout | rector | regulation | Revised Standard Version | Revised Version | ritual | rituale | rondeau | rondelet | rondino | rondo | rondoletto | round | roundelay | rubric | rule | ruling | rural dean | Sanctus | scale | scrapbook | Scripture | Secreta | Sefer Torah | Septuagint | service book | set form | settled principle | siddur | standard | standing order | statute | subdean | suffragan | symposium | teaching | tenet | Tersanctus | test | Testament | the Book | the Good Book | the Scriptures | the Word | Torah | Torah scroll | touchstone | Tract | troll | type | universal law | value | vicar | Virginal | Vulgate | working principle | working rule | yardstick See Also | canyonside | composition | enigma canon | enigmatic canon | enigmatical canon | list | listing | musical composition | opus | piece | piece of music | prebendary | prescript | priest | ravine | riddle canon | rule | scripture Canon In Webster's Dictionary \Can"on\, n. [OE. canon, canoun, AS. canon rule (cf. F.
canon, LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL.
canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr.
Gr. ? rule, rod, fr. ?, ?, red. See {Cane}, and cf.
{Canonical}.]
1. A law or rule.
Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon
'gainst self-slaughter. --Shak.
2. (Eccl.) A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted
by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a
decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by
ecclesiastical authority.
Various canons which were made in councils held in
the second centry. --Hock.
3. The collection of books received as genuine Holy
Scriptures, called the {sacred canon}, or general rule of
moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible;
also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See {Canonical
books}, under {Canonical}, a.
4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
order.
5. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the
Roman Catholic Church.
6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a
prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
7. (Mus.) 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}.
8. (Print.) The largest size of type having a specific name;
-- so called from having been used for printing the canons
of the church.
9. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called
also {ear} and {shank}.
Note: [See Illust. of {Bell}.] --Knight.
10. (Billiards) See {Carom}.
{Apostolical canons}. See under {Apostolical}.
{Augustinian canons}, {Black canons}. See under
{Augustinian}.
{Canon capitular}, {Canon residentiary}, a resident member of
a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the
year).
{Canon law}. See under {Law}.
{Canon of the Mass} (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass,
following the Sanctus, which never changes.
{Honorary canon}, a canon who neither lived in a monastery,
nor kept the canonical hours.
{Minor canon} (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a
chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.
{Regular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual
community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black
canon.
{Secular canon} (R. C. Ch.), one who did not live in a
monastery, but kept the hours.
\Ca*[~n]on"\, n. [Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. ca[~n]a reed, fr. L. canna. See {Cane}.] A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.] |
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