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Canon :: Canon (n.) 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..

Talmud :: Talmud (n.) The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

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

Canon :: Canon (n.) See Carom.

Canon :: Canon (n.) A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.

Cannonical :: Cannonical (a.) Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons..

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

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.

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.

Extravagant :: Extravagant (n.) Certain constitutions or decretal epistles, not at first included with others, but subsequently made a part of the canon law..

Canonship :: Canonship (a.) Of or pertaining to Canopus in Egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming..

Purgation :: Purgation (n.) The clearing of one's self from a crime of which one was publicly suspected and accused. It was either canonical, which was prescribed by the canon law, the form whereof used in the spiritual court was, that the person suspected take his oath that he was clear of the matter objected against him, and bring his honest neighbors with him to make oath that they believes he swore truly; or vulgar, which was by fire or water ordeal, or by combat. See Ordeal..

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..

Canonizing :: Canonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Canoniz.

Canon :: Canon (n.) A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

Canon :: Canon (n.) The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.

Infinito :: Infinito (a.) Infinite; perpetual, as a canon whose end leads back to the beginning. See Infinite, a., 5..

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

Beatify :: Beatify (v. t.) To ascertain and declare, by a public process and decree, that a deceased person is one of the blessed and is to be reverenced as such, though not canonized..

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

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