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from The Century Dictionary.
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cannon , n., 7.
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- noun Plural form of
canon .
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(By the term canons we designate those rules which the holy Fathers have laid down, in which it has been written how canons (canonici), i.e. regular clerics, ought to live).
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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(Please note when I use the term canons of Western Culture I am referring to the philosophical underpinning of our society, which were articulated by Harold Bloom and Mortimer Adler and others of the University of Chicago
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Nor do my masters (so he called his canons) break and destroy a quiet that knows no dissent, for they think me gentle and mild.
Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England 1886
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The various lists and bibliographies that have been mistakenly called canons, I tried to show, are arbitrary; they are selections without a larger principle; they are founded not on a distinction but on convenience.
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