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Definition of Canonicals
1. n. pl. The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when officiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress.
Definition of Canonicals
1. Noun. (plural of canonical) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canonicals
1. canonical [n] - See also: canonical
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonicals
Literary usage of Canonicals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... dignity in the liturgy, as opposed to the canonicals, music, and spectacles
of the Catholic Church. ..."
2. British Popular Customs, Present and Past: Illustrating the Social and by Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer (1900)
"... perambulate the town (Ripon) in their canonicals, singing hymns, and the
blue-cont charity-buys follow singing, with green boughs in their hands. ..."
3. The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-bathing Places by Augustus Bozzi Granville (1841)
"... and his Munificence—The MADINI Library— Dr. WEEDALL and Professor LOGAN—Museum
of Religious Antiquities—The Three canonicals and the Murderous ..."
4. A Question of Miracles: Parallels in the Lives of Buddha and Jesus by Loren Harper Whitney (1908)
"Some of those alleged gospels were written before, and some after the canonicals;
but no absolute and unimpeachable date can be fixed for either class. ..."
5. China: The Country and Its People by George Waldo Browne (1901)
"... presently we meet with bearers whose loads are BUDDHIST ABBOT AND PRIESTS IN
FULL canonicals. slung on bamboo poles made to rest on their shoulders. ..."
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