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A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter. Regular canoness, one bound by the poverty, and observing a strict rule of life. -- Secular canoness, one allowed to hold private property, and bound only by vows of chastity and obedience so long as she chose to remain in the chapter.

Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to a , canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." Hallam. Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catolic Church holds…

; according to the canons.

The quality of being canonical; canonicity. Bp. Burnet.

The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

The office of a canon; a canonry.

The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.

A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.

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

llowing 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.

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

ht 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.

A star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation Argo.

es over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor. "Golden canoniec and beds of state." Dryden.

Melodious; musical. "Birds that are most canorous." Sir T. Browne. A long, lound, and canorous peal of laughter. De Quincey.

The quality of being musical. He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell.

Candlestick. [Obs.] Shak.

e first and principal person in the temple was Irene, or Peace; she was placed aloft in a cant. B. Jonson.

A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.