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Chapter :: Chapter (n.) A community of canons or canonesses.

Interstice :: Interstice (n.) An interval of time; specifically (R. C. Ch.), in the plural, the intervals which the canon law requires between the reception of the various degrees of orders..

Canon Bone :: Canon bone () 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..

Title :: Title (n.) A section or division of a subject, as of a law, a book, specif. (Roman & Canon Laws), a chapter or division of a law book..

Sext :: Sext (n.) The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary..

Cannon Bone :: Cannon bone () See Canon Bone.

Antilegomena :: Antilegomena (n. pl.) Certain books of the New Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena..

Canonistic :: Canonistic (a.) Of or pertaining to a canonist.

Consecrate :: Consecrate (v. t.) To canonize; to exalt to the rank of a saint; to enroll among the gods, as a Roman emperor..

Prime :: Prime (a.) The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonical hour, succeeding to lauds..

Ecclesiastes :: Ecclesiastes (a.) One of the canonical books of the Old Testament.

Canonicity :: Canonicity (n.) The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

Preponderancy :: Preponderancy (n.) The excess of weight of that part of a canon behind the trunnions over that in front of them.

Canonized :: Canonized (imp. & p. p.) of Canoniz.

Canonry :: Canonry (n. pl.) 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.

Canoness :: Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

Nones :: Nones (n. pl.) The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church..

School :: School (n.) The canons, precepts, or body of opinion or practice, sanctioned by the authority of a particular class or age; as, he was a gentleman of the old school..

Clementine :: Clementine (a.) Of or pertaining to Clement, esp. to St. Clement of Rome and the spurious homilies attributed to him, or to Pope Clement V. and his compilations of canon law..

Premonstratensian :: Premonstratensian (n.) One of a religious order of regular canons founded by St. Norbert at Premontre, in France, in 1119. The members of the order are called also White Canons, Norbertines, and Premonstrants..

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