单词 | canonical |
释义 | canonicaladj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Prescribed by, in conformity with, or having reference to ecclesiastical edict or canon law. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [adjective] spiritual?a1400 canonic1483 canonial1502 canonical1576 canonistic1645 canonistical1865 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 266 Rochester hath..a lawfull, and canonicall Cathedrall See. 1586 Will in Spenser's Wks. (Grosart) I. Introd. 17 For..my wyfe for and in the name of her canonicall parte and porcion. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. i. (1793) 553 These canonical disabilities being entirely the province of the ecclesiastical courts. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 298 With the weapons of legal and canonical disputation. b. canonical hours n. (a) stated times of the day appointed by the canons for prayer and devotion; (b) the hours (now from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.) within which marriage can be legally performed in a parish church in England; (c) transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > [noun] service?c1225 houra1250 officec1300 divine service1389 canonical hours1483 course1570 little hours1688 choir offices1876 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > time of wedding > [noun] > hours when wedding may take place canonical hours1483 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 218/2 And euery day at euery hour canonycal she was lift up in thayer of thangellis. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKKiv All suche meditacions perteyneth to the houres canonicall. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes Ep. Ded. sig. A5 The Canonicall voice and watchfulnesse of a Cocke. 1656 A. Cowley Misc. 12 in Poems Each day think on me, and each day I shall For thee make Hours Canonical. 1859 W. F. Hook Church Dict. 144/2 In the Church of Rome, the canonical hours begin with vespers. c. canonical dress n. etc.; the articles of dress worn by clergy according to canon. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > [noun] > according to canon law canonical dress1666 canonicals1748 magpie1904 1666 S. Pepys Diary 27 Sept. (1972) VII. 299 I..to speak for a cloak and cassock for my brother..and I will have him in a canonical dress. 1685 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 343 Titus Oates..to be divested of his canonical habit for ever. 1862 S. Smiles Lives Engineers III. 391 Two..old men, whose canonical hats indicated their quality as village pastors. d. canonical obedience n. the obedience to be rendered by inferior clergy to the bishop or other ecclesiastical superior, according to the canons. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > [noun] > canonical canonical obedience1621 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iv. i. ii. 728 A false perswasion,..of canonicall, or blind obedience. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 87 His new engagements of canonical obedience to the pope. 1869 W. F. Hook Lives Archbps. II. ii. 150 At his consecration he made a profession of canonical obedience to the Archbishop. e. canonical purgation [compare post-classical Latin purgatio canonica (1262, c1330 in British sources)] (i.e. as prescribed by the canon law) an affirmation of innocence given on oath by the accused in a spiritual court, and confirmed by the oaths of several of his or her peers. ΚΠ 1593 R. Cosin Apol. for Sundrie Proc. (rev. ed.) iii. xvi. 232 Which if it were true, would take away not onely our reason taken from proofes which may bee made, euen after the parties Canonical purgation; but also the oath which I termed partly of purgation, and partly of Enquirie. 1837 Biblical Repertory July 348 Persons suspected of heresy are considered as guilty of it, unless they submit to a canonical purgation. 2005 Jrnl. Women's Hist. (Nexis) 9 iv. 9 In this instance, however, the accused successfully underwent canonical purgation to establish his innocence in the matter. 2. Of or belonging to the canon of Scripture. (Also used of other sacred books.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > [adjective] > according to canon law canonical?1555 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > canon > [adjective] priestlyOE canonialc1230 rulera1382 canonized1382 canonical?1555 canonic1634 ?1555 J. Bradford Exhort. carienge Chrystes Crosse viii. 91 The Canonical bokes of the olde and newe testament. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iii. sig. Gv If this new preacher..Could proue his doctrine for Canonicall. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism 167 Though it be not Canonicall, he was a wise man that said, etc. 1790 W. Paley Horæ Paulinæ i. 6 Sentences from the canonical epistles. 1846 R. C. Trench Notes Miracles Prelim. Ess. iv. 39 In nothing, perhaps, are these apocryphal Gospels more worthy of note, than in the diference between the main features of their miracles and those of the Canonical Gospels. 1857 F. M. Müller in Times 20 Apr. 6/3 The chief canonical books of the Buddhist faith. 3. canonical epistles, more particularly, the seven catholic epistles of James, Peter, John, and Jude; also applied to certain epistles of St. Basil, etc. Also quasi-n., a canonical (obsolete) = canon n.1 5.Ἐπιστολὴ κανονικὴ had various senses in ecclesiastical writers. In reference to the Catholic Epistles the meaning is disputed; in reference to those of St. Basil, it means ‘having the authority of a canon’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > epistle > [noun] > canonical canonized epistles1382 canon1483 canonical epistles1755 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 9 Sein iames canonial [a1250 Nero canonial] epistel.] 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xcii. 642 He is greater that is in vs, sayeth S. Iohn in his Canonicall, than is he that is in the worlde. 1755 E. Chambers Cycl. Suppl. Canonical..or general epistles. 4. gen. Of the nature of a canon or rule; of admitted authority, excellence, or supremacy; authoritative; orthodox, accepted; standard. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [adjective] > conforming to a standard rule > standard canonical1553 canonial1589 normal1598 standard1603 legitimate1615 classic1648 legitime1651 classical1751 canonic1850 normative1852 1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 67 Suche as all the worlde hathe confirmed and agreed upon, that it is autentique and canonical. 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L3 A poore mans speech is seldome pleasant, and wisedome vnder a ragged coate seldome canonicall. 1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. xvii. §18. 315 There must bee some Canonicall Interpreter. 1796 Monthly Rev. 19 545 He..remained the canonical geographer of the antients. 1811 Monthly Rev. 65 133 Before Polycletus had ascertained the canonical proportions of a beautiful human frame. 1868 Sat. Rev. 15 Aug. 229/1 Challenging all those who may be disinclined to accept his criticism as canonical. 5. Mathematics. Furnishing, or according to, a general rule or formula (see canon n.1 3). ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > mathematics > [adjective] > relating to mathematical enquiry canonical1738 independenta1739 algorithmic1799 irreflexive1890 uninterpreted1898 consistent1928 polynomial time1972 1738 J. Logan Let. in S. P. Rigaud & S. J. Rigaud Corr. Sci. Men 17th Cent. (1841) (modernized text) I. 331 A true canonical equation or power. 1851 J. J. Sylvester (title) On a remarkable discovery in the Theory of Canonical forms of Hyperdeterminants. 1876 G. Salmon Lessons Mod. Higher Algebra xv. Art. 164 The simplest form to which a quantic can without loss of generality be reduced is called the canonical form of the quantic. 6. Music. According to the rules of canon, in canon form. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > piece of music > type of piece > piece in specific form > [adjective] > canon canonical1609 recte and retro1631 cancrizans1782 per recte et retro1812 canonic1854 finite1869 infinite1869 rectus et inversus1938 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 51 Virgular Syncopation is much vsed, Numerall seldome, Canonicall most seldome. 1869 F. A. G. Ouseley Treat. Counterpoint xxiii. §15 Some fragmentary imitation or canonical episode. 7. Of or belonging to an ecclesiastical chapter, or to one of its members (see canon n.2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > [adjective] canonic1483 capitularc1525 capitulary1563 canonical1597 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxx. 254 No other benefices but onely their canonicall portions. 1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie viii. vii. §3 The very act of canonical election. 1634 Abp. Laud's Visit. Exeter in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 138/2 A canonicall house, due to a canon residentiary. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 116 At my canonical house, at the metropolitical church of Christ, Canterbury. 1881 E. A. Freeman Parenzo in Sketch Subj. Lands Venice Among the canonical buildings on the south side of the church. B. n. plural. [compare academicals.] Canonical robes. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > [noun] > according to canon law canonical dress1666 canonicals1748 magpie1904 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. ix. 61 I did not at all wonder to find a cheat in canonicals. 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. cv. 154 He was accosted by a person in canonicals. 1755 Connoisseur No. 65. Out of his canonicals, his constant dress is what they call parson's blue. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 327 An ecclesiastic in full canonicals. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.n.1483 |
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