*canon*

[ F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. ] That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. See canon. ] (Anat.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Amer. Sp. dim. See cañon. ] [ Southwestern U. S. ] 1. A small cañon. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A narrow passage or lane through chaparral or a forest. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. LL. canonissa. ] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Regular canoness, one bound by the vow of poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. --
Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon. ] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. “The oath of canonical obedience.” Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament. [ PJC ]

3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized. [ PJC ]

4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate. [ PJC ]

5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
Syn. -- standard. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon. [ PJC ]

Canonical books, or
Canonical Scriptures, 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. --
Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. --
Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality. --
Canonical hours, 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. --
Canonical letters, 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. --
Canonical life, 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. --
Canonical obedience, 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. --
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc. --
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a canonical manner; according to the canons. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon{ 2 } to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

n. [ LL. canonucatus canonical: cf. F. canonicat. ] The office of a canon; a canonry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. canonicité. ] The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. canoniste. ] A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a canonist. “This canonistic exposition.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. canonisation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (R. C. Ch.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being canonized or sainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Canonized p. pr. & vb. n. Canonizing. ] [ F. canoniser or LL. canonizare, fr. L. canon.. See Canon. ] 1. (Eccl.) To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fame in time to come canonize us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.[ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. Canonries 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; second + E. canonical. ] Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + canonize. ] 1. To deprive of canonical authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint. [ 1913 Webster ]