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Chronicle :: Chronicle (n.) The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings.

Canonize :: Canonize (v. t.) To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.

Canon :: Canon (n.) 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..

Testament :: Testament (n.) One of the two distinct revelations of God's purposes toward man; a covenant; also, one of the two general divisions of the canonical books of the sacred Scriptures, in which the covenants are respectively revealed; as, the Old Testament; the New Testament; -- often limited, in colloquial language, to the latter..

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

Cannon :: Cannon (n.) A kind of type. See Canon.

Deuterogamy :: Deuterogamy (n.) A second marriage, after the death of the first husband of wife; -- in distinction from bigamy, as defined in the old canon law. See Bigamy..

Saint :: Saint (v. t.) To make a saint of; to enroll among the saints by an offical act, as of the pope; to canonize; to give the title or reputation of a saint to (some one)..

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.

Reservation :: Reservation (n.) A term of canon law, which signifies that the pope reserves to himself appointment to certain benefices..

Protocanonical :: Protocanonical (a.) Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical..

Canonization :: Canonization (n.) The state of being canonized or sainted.

Canon :: Canon (n.) A law or rule.

Deuterocanonical :: Deuterocanonical (a.) Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc..

Canonicate :: Canonicate (n.) The office of a canon; a canonry.

Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..

Canon :: Canon (n.) The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.

Canonicals :: Canonicals (n. pl.) The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress..

Illuminati :: Illuminati (v. t.) Members of certain associations in Modern Europe, who combined to promote social reforms, by which they expected to raise men and society to perfection, esp. of one originated in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, professor of canon law at Ingolstadt, which spread rapidly for a time, but ceased after a few years..

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..

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