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Definition of Canonical hour
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic Church) one of seven specified times for prayer.
Generic synonyms: Hour, Time Of Day
Specialized synonyms: Matins, Morning Prayer, Prime, Terce, Tierce, Sext, Nones, Evensong, Vespers, Complin, Compline
Definition of Canonical hour
1. Noun. Any of certain times of day at which specified prayers are said according to canon law ¹
2. Noun. The prayers said at these times ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonical Hour
Literary usage of Canonical hour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1854)
"... of his soul being pronounced for ever in the convent and elsewhere, as above
stated, at the end of each canonical hour, and after. grace at dinner. ..."
2. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"... and gracious about my having entrenched on the canonical hour. As my own stock
of Nothing is so unproductive, I will, while expecting Marchand, ..."
3. Medii ævi Kalendarium: Or Dates, Charters and Customs of the Middle Ages by Robert Thomas Hampson (1841)
"A Saxon and old English name of a canonical hour, tierce, or 9 o'clock in the
morning, but sometimes it means morning generally (See Vol. I, p. 487. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"By canonical hour is understood all the fixed portion of the ... each portion of
the Divine Office was called a canonical hour, and the whole of the pravers ..."
5. The American Baptist Magazine by Baptist General Convention, Board of Managers (1833)
"... or the second canonical hour, when the darkness over all the earth commenced;
nine o'clock, or the third canonical hour, when he gave up the ghost; ..."
6. The Church of Our Fathers as Seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of by Daniel Rock (1853)
"The first canonical hour is uht-song (or matins), with the after-song (lauds)
... From this great liturgical writer we learn that the first canonical hour ..."
7. The Church of Our Fathers as Seen in St. Osmund's Rite for the Cathedral of by Daniel Rock (1853)
"The first canonical hour is uht-song (or matins), with the after-song (lauds)
... From this great liturgical writer we learn that the first canonical hour ..."
8. Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H.G.O. Dwight in Armenia: Including by Eli Smith, Harrison Gray Otis Dwight (1833)
"... sunrise,) or the first canonical hour, when he was nailed to the cross; six
o'clock, or the second canonical hour, when the darkness over all the earth ..."
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