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Definition of canonical:

  • (adjective) appearing in a biblical canon;
  • (adjective) of or relating to or required by canon law
  • (adjective) reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality;
  • (adjective) conforming to orthodox or recognized rules; "the drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"- Sinclair Lewis

Sentence Examples:

The Canonical Books.

The number is canonical.

The age is scarce canonical!

Arts, letters or canonical law?

We call them canonical satisfactions.

Peter for the canonical circle.

The last question concerns canonical obedience.

"I stand upon my canonical rights."

Canonical Books of the Old Testament.

The canonical laws bar the gate.

Thus arose the cathedral or canonical school.

He ought to decide upon the canonical books.

The first two only are considered canonical.

Peter, isn't there something about canonical hours?

In a canonical manner; according to the canons.

He would submit to a canonical trial only.

Was Paine's pamphlet "the canonical book of scripture?"

With him canonical and holy were not identical.

Canonical prophecy is closely linked with these catastrophes.

The canonical robes date from the fourteenth century.

Canonical proceedings were quietly instituted, and witnesses summoned.

The new Avesta thus produced was proclaimed canonical.

His tribunal of justice imposed the canonical penalties.

His promises are canonical to Him, not our apprehensions.

This will be our equivalent for the canonical Books.

It's not even necessary to heed the canonical hours.

You must follow the canonical offices to the letter.

Introduction to the Canonical Books of the Old Testament.

And this must be one within the canonical distance.

How many canonical books of the Bible are there?

It now remains for us to speak of canonical institution.

The houses were not yet constituted into a canonical province.

The regulars wore the canonical dark blue of Uncle Sam.

She believes also the holy Scriptures, which we call canonical.

They had no canonical hours, no clerical costume, no liturgies.

This doctrine would now be explained in more canonical terms.

Henry, however, would not violate any of the canonical forms.

The Introduction to the Canonical Books of the Old Testament.

Such men are prophets and apostles, whether canonical or not.

The canonical life of the clergy established among the missionaries.

On the whole, I admit as authentic the four canonical Gospels.

To the books included in it the term canonical is applied.

Burke do see that it be truly canonical, and faithfully inserted.

Upon the whole, I accept the four canonical gospels as authentic.

He is not canonical, of questionable origin, and to be passed over.

The next moment a clergyman in canonical dress came toward them.

There was no such thing as chanting at the canonical hours.

The canonical consequences of dangerous marriages illegally contracted are as follows:.

Some of those afterward canonical were not used in all the churches.

He also gives particulars not to be found in the Canonical books.

You have been questioned by the most learned clerks of canonical law.

Of course there is nothing corresponding to this in the canonical Gospels.

John, which was a long time before it was admitted as Canonical.

A grave illness exempts from the saying of the canonical Hours.

The New Testament has the canonical books in the usual order.

They slept together and came together to celebrate the canonical hours.

Paul's Epistles, and the Acts, no other canonical book being mentioned.

"There are other reasons for not doing so besides canonical ones."

He was especially angry that they appeared without their canonical dresses.

They slept together, and came together to celebrate the canonical hours.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

The first thing to be done was to translate the canonical books.

We cannot wonder at the difficulty of obtaining canonical election for Loftus.

Jude had read it, and that he considered it as a canonical book.

Most of them recognize the reading rejected by the canonical text.

They differ about the number of canonical books, and the various readings.

All the canonical books of the Old Testament were written in Hebrew.

The drinking of the cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing.

Other writings than those which we esteem canonical were long used in churches.

A detailed account of these will be found in the article Hours, Canonical.

The account of the tomb is much more minute in the canonical Gospels.

Is any light thrown by it on the authenticity of our canonical books?

The four canonical gospels make no claim to being written in chronological sequence.

The Bible says nothing directly of these men in its canonical books.

Nor long did the other late devices of his canonical wisdom stand.

The entire list of gospels numbered forty; the canonical list contains four.

This Epistle lays a greater claim to canonical authority than most others.

The Queen's mandate is then read, and the oath of canonical obedience taken.

His figure was so peculiarly youthful, we wondered at his full canonical costume.

Preferring her as he certainly did, he paid but little heed to canonical hindrances.

Although the gift is not unduly canonical, I want to give you a Tacitus.

The upper part (which represented him in full canonical costume) has gone.

He introduced the Roman method of chanting the services of the canonical hours.

Canonical institution will be given by the Roman Pontiff in the usual form.

The canonical form of the present prayer is given in the 55th Canon.

Under the canonical arrangement the next prophecy is "The Woe upon the Assyrian".

Or who had a right and authority to declare or make any books canonical?

Clearly, then, the book so frequently cited is not the canonical book of Kings.

Surprisingly few fragments from the long canonical daily prayer services have been found.

"The canonical Scriptures contained in the books of the Old and New Testaments."

Of the references to the Canonical Scriptures in this letter I shall speak presently.

In the attributes claimed for the canonical books no rigid line can be drawn.

That it is not known where, when, by whom, the canonical writings were selected.

She knew the office by heart, and always recited it at the canonical hours.

It could not be canonical for all the world, but it was very instructive.

The facts do not permit us to claim the exclusive use of the canonical Gospels.

Yet here's one more: and now I hope you all Perceive my marrying not canonical.

The number of steps also varies from two to six, instead of the canonical three.

Athanasius places it in his list of the canonical Scriptures without any mark of doubt.

They can, with canonical rigor, determine the party standing of voters at the primaries.