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.

• Romant
  A romaunt.
• Churchyard
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery.
• Underbearer
  One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.
• Fixity
  Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
• Underpinned
  of Underpin
• Pertaining
  of Pertain
• AFTERIMAGE
  The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.
• Appropriative
  Appropriating; making, or tending to, appropriation; as, an appropriative act.
• Secularizing
  of Secularize
• Classification
  The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution into groups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some common relations or affinities.
• Underclay
  A stratum of clay lying beneath a coal bed, often containing the roots of coal plants, especially the Stigmaria.
• Generalness
  The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness.
• Underpuller
  One who underpulls.
• Reduced
  of Reduce
• CANONBIT
  That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
• Statary
  Fixed; settled.
• Community
  Common possession or enjoyment; participation; as, a community of goods.
• Underdig
  To dig under or beneath; to undermine.
• Inspiration
  The act of inspiring or breathing in; breath; specif. (Physiol.), the drawing of air into the lungs, accomplished in mammals by elevation of the chest walls and flattening of the diaphragm; -- the opposite of expiration.

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