canonistn.
/ˈkanənɪst/, U.S. /ˈkænənəst/ 1. A professor of, or one skilled in, the canon law; a canon-lawyer.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > professor of
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?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xxiv. sig. H4 The greasy canonistes nosel the peple in Idolatry.
1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. D.vi A cannoniste, that is to saye, one that is broughte up in the studie of the Popes lawes & decrees.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) To Parl. sig. A4 The shallow commenting of Scholasticks and Canonists.
1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxiii. 144 I am a vile canonist, replied Yorick.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (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.
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > [noun] > a standard or norm > of judgement > upholder of
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1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα vi. 129 (note) If all the etymological canonists..had not been remarkably inattentive to the organical causes of those literal changes of which they treat.
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