FromMiddle Englishcanonycal, fromMedieval Latincanōnicālis.[1][2] Bysurface analysis,canon +-ical.
canonical (comparativemorecanonical,superlativemostcanonical)
- Present in acanon,religious or otherwise.
1732, George Reynolds,A diſſertation: or, Inquiry Concerning theCanonical Autority of the Goſpel according to Mathew; […] [1], 2nd edition, page 4:In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of theApoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies ofChriſtians, asCanonicalScripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…]
- According torecognised ororthodoxrules.
The men played golf in the mostcanonical way, with no local rules.
1838 (date written),L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “(please specify the page)”, inLady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London:Henry Colburn, […], published1842,→OCLC,pages158–159:While bills are being brought into the House of Commons to regulate every thing, from the sweeps crying "sweep," to "emancipation, vote by ballot, and free trade," is there no county member whose "time and talents" are devoted to "domestic policy," who will bring in a bill "for the better regulation of the marriage ceremony," and put thecanonical hours later in the day?
- Stated or used in the mostbasic andstraightforwardlyapplicable manner.
the reduction of a linear substitution to itscanonical form
- Prototypical.
- (religion) In conformity withcanon law.
- (music) In the form of acanon.
- (religion) Of or pertaining to anecclesiasticalchapter.
- (mathematics, computing) Incanonical form.
- (mathematics)Distinguished among entities of its kind, so that it can be picked out in a way that does not depend on anyarbitrary choices.
2011 February 7, Samson Abramsky with Nikos Tzevelekos, “Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)[2], page19:
- (fandomslang) Related to or part of thecanon of afictionaluniverse.
present in a canon, religious or otherwise
according to recognised or orthodox rules
stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner
(religion) in conformity with canon law
(music) in the form of a canon
(religion) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
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canonical (pluralcanonicals)
- (plural only) The formal robes of apriest.
1857, Various,The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857[3]:He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of hiscanonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.
1891,Emily Sarah Holt,The White Lady of Hazelwood[4]:Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by hiscanonicals, was not altogether a common one.
1915,H. G. Wells,The Research Magnificent[5]:When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will incanonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.
- (Internet) AURL presented incanonical form.
2015, Simon Kloostra,Joomla! 3 SEO and Performance, page63:Google advisescanonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.
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