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CANONICALLY
canonically
(adverb) in a canonical manner; “the deacon was canonically inducted”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
canonically (comparative more canonically, superlative most canonically)
In a canonical manner.
Source: Wiktionary
Ca*non"ic*al*ly, adv. In a canonical manner
Definition: ; according to the canons.
CANONIC
Ca*non"ic, Can*non"ic*al, a Etym: [L. cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon.]
Definition: 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 Catolic 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 dishop to traveling clergymam or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the cammunion, and to distinguish them from heretics.
– Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient cleargy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid that the monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
– Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior cleargy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their supriors.
– Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
– Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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