Canon is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CANON in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a member of an order of clergy living in a clergy-house or within the precincts of a cathedral etc. in accordance with the canons of the church
• a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged
• a Church decree or law
• a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine
• the works of a particular author or artist that are recognized as genuine
• the list of works considered to be permanently established as being of the highest quality
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) the part of the Mass containing the words of consecration.
• a piece in which the same melody is begun in different parts successively, so that the imitations overlap
• a member of the clergy who is on the staff of a cathedral, especially one who is a member of the chapter
• (in the Roman Catholic Church) a member of certain orders of clergy that live communally according to an ecclesiastical rule in the same way as monks.
• priest serving in a cathedral
• A law or rule.
• A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority.
• The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a.
• In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order.
• A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.
• A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
• A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.
• The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
• The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank.
• See Carom.
• a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy
• a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter
• a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall
• a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts
• a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church
• a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a law decreed by a church council

Words related to CANON

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Words that contain CANON

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How to use CANON in a sentence

• THE MISSION SERVICE IN BOX CANON IS SUSPENDED XXXIX.
• They put in their place later systematic works, also in Prâkrit, and assert, in vindication of their different teaching, that the canon of their rivals is corrupted.
• The canon law had now grown up to its full strength.
• The canon did not look so very far away, and we desired mightily to reach it.
• In the canon from which I had emerged a fine rain had been falling.
• The meal was disposed of very hurriedly and, leaving Jack to watch the camp, John and Billy crossed the canon southward.
• In his government, Canon Alonso de Vargas entered to govern, with the same form of choice as the first.
• He has served in this cathedral for ten years as a medio-racionero, an entire canon, and master of school.
• July 4th, at Barham, Suffolk, Canon Kirby, rector of that parish.
• It was Canon Pascal he had come down to see, and he went straight on to his well-known study.
• The accuracy of this definition is very perceptible when we consider the wantonness of the assaults of the Rationalists upon the Scriptures as the canon of faith and practice.
• Let it be known and manifest to whoever reads this scrip, how Messere Bernardo Cencio, Canon of St.
• He glanced over the edge of the canon road and his smile faded a little.
• The Minor Canon, therefore, walked back, the Griffin flying slowly through the air, at a short distance above the head of his guide.
• The Canon Obrero, from whom he had implored help, did not care to disturb the blessed peace of his existence by mixing himself up in the quarrels of the smaller people.
• Not until long afterwards did the Church determine what books were to enter the canon of the New Testament, and in what order they were to stand.
• It was some time after dark, and I was still a quarter of a mile from the camp fires, where in the bed of a canon I stepped into some mud, which was a sign of water.
• The camping place was in a deep canon, surrounded by thick brush, so that no wind came in to chill us.
• She was indeed late, the bulk of the congregation already seated, the Canon at the reading-desk and Mrs.
• The machinery which the canon and the civil law placed at the disposal of the ordinary for his judicial administration of the parish was extraordinarily flexible.
• He had but to step into the wagon, and drive on down the canon.
• The only place we can lay out our side tracks is just at the head of the canon, and at the lower end of the valley.

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