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

Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..

Homologoumena :: Homologoumena (n. pl.) Those books of the New Testament which were acknowledged as canonical by the early church; -- distinguished from antilegomena.

Imitation :: Imitation (n.) One of the principal means of securing unity and consistency in polyphonic composition; the repetition of essentially the same melodic theme, phrase, or motive, on different degrees of pitch, by one or more of the other parts of voises. Cf. Canon..

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..

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.

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

Antipope :: Antipope (n.) One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism..

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

Apocryphal :: Apocryphal (a.) Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false.

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

Canonicalness :: Canonicalness (n.) The quality of being canonical; canonicity.

Classicalist :: Classicalist (n.) One who adheres to what he thinks the classical canons of art.

Complin :: Complin (n.) The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset..

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

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

Codex :: Codex (n.) A collection of canons.

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.

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.

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