Word Meanings - CANONICCANNONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. -- Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. -- Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. -- Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church. -- Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics. -- Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, and more restrained that the secular. -- Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors. -- Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. -- Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

Canonize
To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Stater
One who states.
Decretory
Established by a decree; definitive; settled.
Underfong
To undertake; to take in hand; to receive.
Methodism
The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.
Undersleeve
A sleeve of an under-garment; a sleeve worn under another,
UNDERLOADSWITCH
A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.
Catholicly
In a catholic manner; generally; universally.
Stationed
of Station
Distinguisher
One who, or that which, distinguishes or separates one thing from another by marks of diversity.
Undergraduate
A member of a university or a college who has not taken his first degree; a student in any school who has not completed his course.
Murder
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
Understandingly
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly.
Aftermath
A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
Churchgoing
Habitually attending church.
Statoblast
One of a peculiar kind of internal buds, or germs, produced in the interior of certain Bryozoa and sponges, especially in the fresh-water species; -- also called winter buds.
Established
of Establish
Underhew
To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain.
Otherwhiles
At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.

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Word Meanings - CANONICCANNONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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