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Apostolical canons . See under Apostolical. — Augustinian canons, Black canons. See under
Augustinian. — Canon capitular, Canon residentiary, a resident member of a cathedral chapter —
Canon law. See under Law. — Canon of the Mass (R. C. Ch.), that part of the mass, following
the Sanctus, which never changes. — Honorary canon, a canon who neither lived in a monastery,
nor kept the canonical hours. — Minor canon (Ch. of Eng.), one who has been admitted to a chapter,
but has not yet received a prebend. — Regular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who lived in a conventual
community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon. — Secular canon (R. C. Ch.), one who
did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours.
Cañon
(||Ca*ñon") n. [Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. caña reed, fr. L. canna. See Cane.] A deep gorge, ravine,
or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses. [Mexico & Western U. S.]
Canon bit
(Can"on bit`) [F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule.] That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.
Canon bone
(Can"on bone`) [F. canon, fr. L. canon a rule. See canon.] (Anat.) The shank bone, or
great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to
the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
Canoness
(Can"on*ess) n. [Cf. LL. canonissa.] A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.
Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. — Secular canoness,
one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she
chose to remain in the chapter.
Canonic
(Ca*non"ic Can*non"ic*al) a. [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique.
See canon.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The
oath of canonical obedience." Hallam.
Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the
church to be of divine inspiration; — called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as
canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal. — Canonical epistles, an appellation
given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic. — Canonical
form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be
reduced without lose of generality. — Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical
laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be
used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p.
m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any
parish church. — Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling
clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them
from heretics. — Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who
lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more
restrained that the secular. — Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church, especially
the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors. - -
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance,
etc. — Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed
by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
Canonically
(Ca*non"ic*al*ly) adv. In a canonical manner; according to the canons.
Canonicalness
(Ca*non"ic*al*ness), n. The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.
Canonicals
(Ca*non"ic*als) n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when
officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.
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