canonic
canonic (kȧ*non"ik) , adjective
[Latin canonicus, Late Latin canonicalis, from Latin canon: compare French canonique. See canon.]
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.
The oath of canonical obedience.
2.
Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament.
3.
Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
4.
(Mathematics) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
5.
(Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
6.
Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
Collocations (9)
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 (Mathematics) , 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.
Also: canonical