canonical
adjective
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/kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kəl/ us
/kəˈnɑː.nɪ.kəl/ (also canonic)canonical adjective (IN RELIGION)
religion
formal or specialized
a canonical rule
The Pope indicated that he would not consider any applications for canonical pardon.
- The canonical excommunication of the bishops for their illegal ordinations was considered.
- The infallibility of the canonical scriptures rested on the authority of councils and church tradition.
- The canonical implications are not clear.
- In Roman Catholicism, is there any canonic difference between a delegate and a commissary?
- agnosticism
- Anglicanism
- animist
- anti-Catholic
- anti-Catholicism
- doctrinal
- fetishistic
- heretical
- heretically
- humanism
- humanistic
- humanistically
- mysticism
- orthodoxy
- religiously
- scripturally
- superstitiously
- theodicy
- theologically
- this-worldly
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canonical adjective (OF ARTIST, WORK)
Canonical works are those that are considered authoritative by the fan community.
- I think Hemingway is easily the most overrated canonical writer in history.
- This is the canonical text on film criticism.
- Goethe is thought of as a canonical figure of Western culture.
- They study canonical films of all genres.
- Notre Dame du Haut is one of Le Corbusier's most canonical works.
- He combines research into highly obscure aspects of opera with reflections on such canonic works as Die Zauberflöte.
- accentual
- action hero
- alliterative
- alternative history
- anapest
- fictionally
- fictive
- fictively
- framing
- framing device
- non-literary
- non-metrical
- non-poetic
- nonsense verse
- nursery rhyme
- tartan noir
- theatrics
- threnody
- topos
- tragedy
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