canon
IPA: kˈænʌn
noun
- A generally accepted principle; a rule.
- a formally codified set of criteria deemed mandatory for a particular artistic style of figurative art.
- A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field.
- The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic.
- A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.
- A religious law or body of law decreed by the church.
- A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
- In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
- A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times; a round.
- (Roman law) A rent or stipend payable at some regular time, generally annual, e.g., canon frumentarius
- (fandom slang, uncountable) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are considered part of the main continuity regarding a given fictional universe.
- (cooking) A rolled and filleted loin of meat; also called a cannon.
- (printing, dated, uncountable) A large size of type formerly used for printing the church canons, standardized as 48-point.
- The part of a bell by which it is suspended; the ear or shank of a bell.
- A clergy member serving a cathedral or collegiate church.
- A canon regular, a member of any of several Roman Catholic religious orders.
- A surname.
- (Roman Catholicism, with definite article) The Canon of the Mass.
- (Christianity) Title for a canon.
- Alternative spelling of qanun [(music) A Near Eastern and Caucasian musical instrument related to the zither, dulcimer, or harp having either 26 strings and a single bridge, or 42 strings and two bridges.]
- (obsolete, now a misspelling) Alternative spelling of cannon (“weapon”) [A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.]
- Alternative spelling of cannon (“a carom in billiards”) [A complete assembly, consisting of an artillery tube and a breech mechanism, firing mechanism or base cap, which is a component of a gun, howitzer or mortar. It may include muzzle appendages.]
- (Christianity) Alternative letter-case form of canon: a member of a chapter. [A generally accepted principle; a rule.]
adjective
- (fandom slang) Clipping of canonical. [Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.]
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Examples of "canon" in Sentences
- He became the canon of Salamanca.
- Frivolity is no excuse for ignoring canon.
- He died in the infirmary the canons of the church.
- They will to be canonized in the name of the Lord.
- The people were canonized by the head of the church.
- Doctrine is found in the canonical scriptures of the Church.
- The custom of canonization began in the early church by popular acclamation.
- The Synod ratified the autocephaly of the Church of Cyprus by its 8th canon.
- Later the church would pass canon laws forbidding the practice of divination.
- Later, the church would pass canon laws forbidding the practice of divination.
- 4 Even the English word 'canon' comes from the Arabic word kanun meaning 'law' or
- To get to the point, arguing 'canon' is the dullest and most pointless thing you can do.
- We kneel in reverence for the eucharistic prayer, also called the canon, a Greek word meaning “standard,” or “rule of measure.”
- As "canons" are normally rigid, consecrated and unvarying liturgical doctrines, your citing of a "loose canon" is an amusing concept.
- The Charming Betsy canon is not an inviolable rule of general application, but a principle of interpretation that bears on a limited range of cases.
- The Spirit speaks in the canon of Scripture (the word canon is derived from Hebrew, "kaneh," "a reed," the word here used; and John it was who completed the canon).
- First, the purpose of the Charming Betsy canon is to avoid the negative “foreign policy implications” of violating the law of nations, and Plaintiffs have offered no reason to believe that their low wages are likely to “embroil [] the nation in a foreign policy dispute.”
- The word canon, in classical Greek, is properly a straight rod, "a rule" in the widest sense, and especially in the phrases "the rule of the Church," "the rule of faith," "the rule of truth," The first direct application of the term canon to the Scriptures seems to be in the verses of Amphilochius
- At the same time there were many clerics who did live in common, e.g. the cenobites, and the term canon was applied to them as early as the fourth century; but it must not be inferred from this fact that the office of canon has its origin in those who followed the cenobitical Rule of St. Augustine (see
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