Canonic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  canonic \ca*non"ic\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]k), canonical
  \ca*non"ic*al\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]*kal), 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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  canonic
       adj 1: appearing in a Biblical canon; "a canonical book of the
              Christian New Testament" [syn: {canonical}]
       2: of or relating to or required by canon law [syn: {canonical}]
       3: reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible
          without loss of generality; "a basic story line"; "a
          canonical syllable pattern" [syn: {basic}, {canonical}]
       4: conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of
          cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair
          Lewis [syn: {canonical}, {sanctioned}]