A law or
rule.
A law, or rule of
doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the
pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or
constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
The collection of books received as
genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or
general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration;
the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See
Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
In monasteries, a book containing the
rules of a religious order.
A catalogue of saints acknowledged and
canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
A member of a cathedral chapter; a
person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate
church.
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.
The largest size of
type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used
for printing the canons of the church.
The part of a bell by which it is
suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
See
Carom.
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