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Definition of Canonist

1. Noun. A specialist in canon law.

2. Adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g.. "Canonist communism"

Definition of Canonist

1. n. A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.

Definition of Canonist

1. Noun. (legal) An expert in canon law ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Canonist

1. a specialist in canon law [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonist

canonicalizes canonicalizing canonically canonicalness canonicals canonicate canonicates canonicities canonicity canonisation

canonisations canonise canonised canonises canonising canonist (current term) canonistic canonists canonizable canonization

canonizations canonize canonized canonizer canonizers canonizes canonizing canonries canonry canons

Literary usage of Canonist

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to English Economic History and Theory by William James Ashley (1906)
"The canonist literature has been 80 completely ignored in England that the student has perforce to turn to Gorman treatises. ..."

2. An Introduction to English Economics History and Theory by William James Ashley (1893)
"The canonist literature has been so completely ignored in England that the student has perforce to turn to German treatises. ..."

3. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1907)
"The whole conflict turned on the canonist conception of civil authority, as against the modern secular theories. The Venetians asserted the Divine right of ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"BARTHOLOMEW OF BRESCIA: A canonist of the thirteenth century. Little is known with any certainty of his life. He was born about the beginning of the century ..."

5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1891)
"No wonder, then, that the canonist, in his indignation at these unworthy brethren, should exclaim ..."

6. Reeves' History of the English Law: From the Time of the Romans, to the End by John Reeves, William Francis Finlason (1869)
"... that he should be both a civilian and a canonist Indeed the use of the canon law became now a subject of very serious consideration. ..."

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