canonic : Idioms & Phrases


Canonical books, ∨ Canonical Scriptures

  • those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
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Canonical epistles

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

  • (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality.
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Canonical hours

  • noun (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer
    canonical hour.
WordNet
  • 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.
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Canonical letters

  • letters of several kinds, formerly given by a dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics.
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Canonical life

  • the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
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Canonical obedience

  • submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors.
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Canonical punishments

  • such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
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Canonical sins

  • (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
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