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Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.

lowing beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. Canonization of saints was not known to the Christian church titl toward the middle of the tenth century. Hoock.

(a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.

t to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

Of pertaining to Canopus in egypt; as, the Canopic vases, used in embalming.

Pertaining to a second canon, or ecclesiastical writing of inferior authority; -- said of the Apocrypha, certain Epistles, etc.

worn by the pope at mass, and by eastern bishops. (b) A maniple. [Written also fannel, phanon, etc.]

The ensign or standard in use by certain princes or states, such as the mediæval republics of Italy, and in more recent times by the pope.

The large process at the proximal end of the ulna which projects behind the articulation with the humerus and forms the bony prominence of the elbow.

d; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title ("Novum Organon") of part of his treatise on philosophical method. Sir. W. Hamilton.

The designation or nomenclature of organs. B. G. Wilder.

A speaking machine.

Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.

To deprive of canonical authority.

her beauty." Shak. Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century. Canon Robinson.

The olecranon, or the elbow. Ancon sheep (Zoöl.), a breed of sheep with short crooked legs and long back. It originated in Massachusetts in 1791; -- called also the otter breed.

Of or pertaining to the ancon or elbow. "The olecranon on anconeal process." Flower.

w Testament which were for a time not universally received, but which are now considered canonical. These are the Epistle to the Hebrews, the Epistles of James and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.…

One who is elected, or claims to be, pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen; esp. applied to those popes who resided at Avignon during the Great Schism.

Not canonical. Hence: Of doubtful authority; equivocal; mythic; fictitious; spurious; false. The passages . . . are, however, in part from apocryphal or fictitious works. Sir G. C. Lewis.