noun. The theory of music.

noun. One who practises music.

Same as canonical.

noun. [Gr. το\ κανονικόν, neut. of κανονικός: see above.] In the Epicurean philosophy, a name for logic, considered as supplying a norm or rule to which reasoning has to conform.

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. In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.

adjective. 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. undefined

adjective. an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic.

adjective. 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. those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

adjective. canonical

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

"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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