Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person specializing in canon law.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in ecclesiastical or canon law.
- noun One who lays down canons or laws for guidance in the systematic or scientific treatment of a subject.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun law An
expert incanon law
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g.
- noun a specialist in canon law
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Examples
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It seems as if you mean that the canonist is looking for an indicator (even if not a definitive one) of the thing the theologian is concerned with.
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Carl - be careful, we need to promote some humility for our favorite canonist.
From Michael Jackson to indulgences, Dr. Peters is the man! 2009
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And it seems to me that in the example I gave the canonist can have no such thing.
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It seems as if you understand the canonist to be looking for a real sign of the same thing the theologian wants to know about.
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While others can better describe his work with, say, the Institute for Priestly Formation, Cursillo, or Charismatic Renewal, it's Carlson the canonist who interests me.
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A real expert in canon law would not expect to be taken seriously by merely coming onto a blog under a pseudonym and calling himself a canonist.
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If indeed he is a canonist, he is not one who is very good at logic.
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Maybe I am a canonist and insist that all material be from the brain of the creator or at least approved by them.
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Note that I'm not a cleric or a canonist; I'm a husband, a father, and an engineer presently on his lunch break.
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Because the Power to bind and loose rests with Benedict XVI -- not John Salza, or any of the Society's Bishops and any canonist worth his salt knows this.
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