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Definition of Canonical
1. Adjective. Appearing in a biblical canon. "A canonical book of the Christian New Testament"
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or required by canon law.
3. Adjective. Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality. "A canonical syllable pattern"
4. Adjective. Conforming to orthodox or recognized rules. "The drinking of cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing"
Definition of Canonical
1. Adjective. Present in a canon, religious or otherwise. ¹
2. Adjective. According to recognised or orthodox rules. ¹
3. Adjective. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner. ¹
4. Adjective. Prototypical. ¹
5. Adjective. (religion) In conformity with canon law. ¹
6. Adjective. (music) In the form of a canon. ¹
7. Adjective. (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter ¹
8. Adjective. (context: mathematics computing) In canonical form. ¹
9. Noun. (context: Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canonical
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonical
Literary usage of Canonical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"A third feature in favour of our canonical records of Christ's life was the ...
Lastly, and more particularly, the canonical Gospels were regarded as of ..."
2. Theory of Differential Equations by Andrew Russell Forsyth (1906)
"P.) |^ If the new form of the equations is still canonical, the former of these must
... In the neit place, suppose that the canonical system is of the KM m ..."
3. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"These canonical disabilities being entirely the province of the ecclesiastical
courts, our books are perfectly silent concerning them. ..."
4. An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics by Edwin Bailey Elliott (1895)
"canonical and semi-canonical forms. For the detailed study of the quintic much
use has been made of the form to which it may be reduced or, say, ..."
5. Lessons Introductory to the Modern Higher Algebra by George Salmon (1885)
"In Lesson xvm the canonical form of the quintic art5 + bys + cz5, which so much
facilitates its discussion, was given by Sylvester in his Essay on canonical ..."
6. History: Fiction of Science? by Anatoly Fomenko (2005)
"... chapter volume function in the Bible (standard canonical chapters) By G. V
... with the canonical edition of the Bible used fom this ..."
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