CPage 40
- English Word Canon Definition A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
- English Word Canon Definition A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
- English Word Canon Definition The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
- English Word Canon Definition The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
- English Word Canon Definition See Carom.
- English Word Canon bit Definition That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
- English Word Canon bone Definition The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
- English Word Canoness Definition A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
- English Word Canonic Definition Alt. of Cannonical
- English Word Canonically Definition In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
- English Word Canonicalness Definition The quality of being canonical; canonicity.
- English Word Canonicals Definition The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
- English Word Canonicate Definition The office of a canon; a canonry.
- English Word Canonicity Definition The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
- English Word Canonist Definition A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
- English Word Canonistic Definition Of or pertaining to a canonist.
- English Word Canonization Definition The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
- English Word Canonization Definition The state of being canonized or sainted.
- English Word Canonize Definition To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
- English Word Canonize Definition To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
- English Word Canonize Definition To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.
- English Word Canonized Definition of Canonize
- English Word Canonizing Definition of Canonize
- English Word Canonry Definition A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
- English Word Canonship Definition Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.
- English Word Canopes Definition of Canopy
- English Word Canopies Definition of Canopy
- English Word Canopus Definition A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.
- English Word Canopy Definition A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
- English Word Canopy Definition An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.