Part 1598

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Eccl.)</fld> <def>A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.</def>

<blockquote>Various <b>canons</b> which were made in councils held in the second centry. <i>Hock.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the <i>sacred canon</i>, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See <cref>Canonical books</cref>, under <er>Canonical</er>, a.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A catalogue of saints sckowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mus.)</fld> <def>A musical composition in which the voice begin one after another, at regular intervals, succesively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a <i>coda</i> (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See <er>Imitation</er>.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also <altname>ear</altname> and <altname>shank</altname>.</def> <note>[See <i>Illust</i>. of <er>Bell</er>.]</note>

<i>Knight.</i>

<p><b>10.</b> <fld>(Billiards)</fld> <def>See <er>Carom</er>.</def>

<cs><col>Apostolical canons</col>. <cd>See under <er>Apostolical</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Augustinian canons</col>, <col>Black canons</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Augustinian</er>.</cd> -- <mcol><col>Canon capitular</col>, <col>Canon residentiary</col></mcol>, <cd>a resident member of a cathedral chapter (during a part or the whole of the year).</cd> -- <col>Canon law</col>. <cd>See under <er>Law</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canon of the Mass</col> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>that part of the mass, following the Sanctus, which never changes.</cd> -- <col>Honorary canon</col>, <cd>a canon who neither lived in a monastery, nor kept the canonical hours.</cd> -- <col>Minor canon</col> <fld>(Ch. of Eng.)</fld>, <cd>one who has been admitted to a chapter, but has not yet received a prebend.</cd> -- <col>Regular canon</col> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>one who lived in a conventual community and follower the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon.</cd> -- <col>Secular canon</col> <fld>(R. C. Ch.)</fld>, <cd>one who did not live in a monastery, but kept the hours.</cd></cs>

<h1>Ca\'a4on</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw>Ca*\'a4on"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp., a tube or hollow, fr. <ets>ca\'a4a</ets> reed, fr. L. <ets>canna</ets>. See <er>Cane</er>.]</ety> <def>A deep gorge, ravine, or gulch, between high and steep banks, worn by water courses.</def> <mark>[Mexico & Western U. S.]</mark>

<h1>Canon bit</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw>Can"on bit`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F. <ets>canon</ets>, fr. L. <ets>canon</ets> a rule.]</ety> <def>That part of a bit which is put in a horse's mouth.</def>

<h1>Canon bone</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw>Can"on bone`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[F. <ets>canon</ets>, fr. L. <ets>canon</ets> a rule. See <er>canon</er>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>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 <er>Horse</er>.</def>

<h1>Canoness</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw>Can"on*ess</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. LL. <ets>canonissa</ets>.]</ety> <def>A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.</def>

<cs><col>Regular canoness</col>, <cd>one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life.</cd> -- <col>Secular canoness</col>, <cd>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.</cd></cs>

<h1>Canonic, Cannonical</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw><hw>Ca*non"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Can*non"ic*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>cannonicus</ets>, LL. <ets>canonicalis</ets>, fr. L. <ets>canon</ets>: cf. F. <ets>canonique</ets>. See <er>canon</er>.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons.</def> "The oath of <i>canonical</i> obedience."

<i>Hallam.</i>

<cs><mcol><col>Canonical books</col>, &or; <col>Canonical Scriptures</col></mcol>, <cd>those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively <i>the canon<i>. The Roman Catolic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal.</cd> -- <col>Canonical epistles</col>, <cd>an appellation given to the epistles called also <i>general<i> or <i>catholic<i>. See <cref>Catholic epistles</cref>, under <er>Canholic</er>.</cd> -- <col>Canonical form</col> <fld>(Math.)</fld>, <cd>the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality.</cd> -- <col>Canonical hours</col>, <cd>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 <sc>a. m.</sc> to 3 <sc>p. m.</sc> (formerly 8 <sc>a. m.</sc> to 12 <sc>m.</sc>) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church.</cd> -- <col>Canonical letters</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Canonical life</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Canonical obedience</col>, <cd>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.</cd> -- <col>Canonical punishments</col>, <cd>such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.</cd> -- <col>Canonical sins</col> <fld>(Anc. Church.)</fld>, <cd>those for which capital punishment or puplic penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.</cd></cs>

<h1>Canonically</h1> <Xpage=211>

<hw>Ca*non"ic*al*ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv. In a canonical manner</tt><def>; <i>according to the canons</i>.</def>

<h1>Canonicalness</h1> <Xpage=211>