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Definition of Canon
1. Noun. A rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy. "Canons of polite society"
2. Noun. A priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter.
3. Noun. A ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall.
Terms within: Canyonside
Geographical relationships: North America
Generic synonyms: Ravine
4. Noun. A contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts.
Specialized synonyms: Enigma Canon, Enigmatic Canon, Enigmatical Canon, Riddle Canon
5. Noun. A complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church.
6. Noun. A collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.
Definition of Canon
1. n. A law or rule.
Definition of Canon
1. Noun. A generally accepted principle. ¹
2. Noun. (anchor literary)A group of literary works that are generally accepted as representing a field. ¹
3. Noun. The works of a writer that have been accepted as authentic. ¹
4. Noun. A eucharistic prayer, particularly, the Roman Canon. ¹
5. Noun. A religious law or body of law decreed by the church. ¹
6. Noun. A member of a cathedral chapter ¹
7. Noun. A piece of music in which the same melody is played by different voices, but beginning at different times. ¹
8. Noun. (context: fandom) Those sources, especially including literary works, which are generally considered authoritative regarding a given fictional universe. ¹
9. Noun. (alternative spelling of canyon) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canon
1. a law decreed by a church council [n -S] : CANONIC [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canon
Literary usage of Canon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The Sarum Rite, for instance, which Anglicans have sometimes tried to set up as
a sort of rival to the Roman Rite, does not contain in its canon a single ..."
2. Journal of the Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the Protestant by Episcopal Church, Episcopal Church Diocese of Michigan, Diocese of Michigan (1861)
"canon LA list to be made of the Clergy. III. Of the trial ol a Clergyman. ...
Title n, canon 12, § I. VI. Of the admission of a Church into union with the ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"There cannot, therefore, exist any canon for the speculative exercise of this
faculty—for its speculative exercise is entirely dialectical; and consequently ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"45, 81) 5000, thé canon Mommsen only 4140. The division into two books is
comparatively modern, unknown to the Masora and the canon-catalogues. Origen (cf. ..."
5. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"THE submarine canon off Cape Verde, worked out in a splendid manner by Henry ...
Now, the magnificent canon of the Hudson river is revealed to great depths ..."
6. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
"It was maintained by the rules of the canon Law which was accepted as the " jus
commune ... Henceforth the canon Law stood side by side with the Civil Law. ..."
7. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"And, as no such review has yet been perfected, upon this statute now depends the
authority of the canon law in England. § 107. (iii) canons enacted under ..."
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