Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
canonical . - noun [Gr.
το\ κανονικόν , neut. ofκανονικός : see above.] In the Epicurean philosophy, a name for logic, considered as supplying a norm or rule to which reasoning has to conform. - noun The theory of music.
- noun One who practises music.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.
- adjective Appearing in a Biblical canon.
- adjective Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
- adjective (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
- adjective (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality. Opposite of
nonstandard . - adjective Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
- adjective those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively
the canon . The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. - adjective an appellation given to the epistles called also
general orcatholic . See Catholic epistles, underCanholic . - adjective (Math.) the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality.
- adjective 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.
- adjective letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics.
- adjective the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
- adjective submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
- adjective such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
- adjective (Anc. Church.) those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
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- adjective
canonical
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or required by canon law
- adjective conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
- adjective reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
- adjective appearing in a biblical canon
Etymologies
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Examples
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It specifies that sodomy in canonic and civil laws referred to a set of acts not to an individual; the laws did not define a subject except in the juridical sense. [
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The phenomenon of people not recognizing language abilities of those who don't look like the 'canonic' speaker is widely attested and works in all directions.
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Osiris, who also summoned the annual floods, is often represented in the shape of a "canonic" vase with a stopper in the shape of a crowned head.
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See Moritz Hauptmann's account of his "canonic" travelling-companion's ways and procedures in the letters to Franz Hauser, vol. i., p. 64, and passim.]
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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Though I would still need to chase it with more canonic fare.
And you still Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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The wind is tremendous, a permutation fugue — howling, seething, silent — haunting in its canonic imitations.
Water Ames John Gigounas 2011
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If the technology used in Ricercare is much less sophisticated than in the later works, Harvey still uses it to striking effect – piling up canonic textures at the opening, and then gradually introducing shifts of pitch and tempo to underpin the live playing.
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Though I would still need to chase it with more canonic fare.
Archive 2009-04-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Sometimes I Feel Alive (1998), to texts by e.e. cummings, explores aspects of love from the sensual to the selfless through an appealing blend of jazzy pop-music rhythms, canonic writing (at which Wachner excels), and hymnlike choral blending with a near-Ivesian sound.
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A shot of Henze's angularity would have helped the world premiere of O Sonho (The Dream), a 90-minute chamber opera by Pedro Amaral based on passages from Salome by the canonic Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa.
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