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canonist|ˈkænənɪst|
[a. F. canoniste (15th c. in Littré), in med.L. canonista: see -ist.]
1. A professor of, or one skilled in, the canon law; a canon-lawyer.
1542Brinklow Complaynt xxiv. (1874) 71 The greasy canonistes nosel the peple in idolatry. 1549Latimer Serm. Ploughers 38 A cannoniste, that is to saye, one that is broughte up in the studie of the Pope's lawes and decrees. 1643Milton Divorce (1851) Introd. 10 The shallow commenting of Scholasticks and Canonists. 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) IV. xxiii. 99, I am a vile canonist, replied Yorick. 1868Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) II. App. 652 It offended against the strict laws of the Church as understood by continental canonists.
2. One who makes or upholds canons in science, criticism, etc.
1786–1805H. Tooke Purley i. vi. (1829) 93 If the etymological canonists..had not been so remarkably inattentive to the causes..of those literal changes of which they treat. |