canonical
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- adjective
- /kəˈnænɪkəl/
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canónico
- Is this reason enough to engage in traditional religious practices and to meditate on canonical religious books?
- canonical texts
- canonical books
- canonical status
So the the real canonical example is Sherlock Holmes.
- So the the real canonical example is Sherlock Holmes.
- Today is the canonical death day of Tony Stark.
- So the canonical example of this is the hardware design world.
Examples
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Tradition, magisterial pronouncements, and canonical writings provide the generally accepted instances of genuinely Christian speech.
Academic text (1991) -
Such papal declarations found their way into canonical collections of the Middle Ages.
Academic text (2002) -
Do you accept your canonical election as Supreme Pontiff?
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When Rudolf describes Leoba's function as teacher, he uses official, even canonical, terms to identify her position.
Academic text (2002) -
In her now canonical article, Ordez expressed the idea of the house as metafiction.
Academic text (2003) -
Canonists disagree, by the way, about whether the Church should grant canonical recognition to civil annulments.
Blog text (9) -
So that's why you're reading list your reading for today had some canonical material, the letters of Ignatius.
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Conversion often occurs for individually pragmatic reasons, but canonical elements of doctrine are later called upon as a justification.
Academic text (2001) -
In striking contrast to Hawthorne's lasting canonical status, Melville had suffered a painful exclusion.
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The church recognized the canonical texts as the official scripture for its followers.
Synonyms
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A book or study that is the most complete and respected on a subject
People treat something as officially important and the accepted standard
Following accepted rules or standards, like classic works that define a style
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
One of seven fixed times for prayer during the day in the Roman Catholic Church
How Canonical
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Canonical comes from an old Greek word kanon, a 'measuring rod' or 'rule'. The same root gives us canon, the list of books a church accepts, so canonical texts are those 'in the rule' and officially accepted.