Word Meanings - CANON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second

Additional info about word: CANON

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. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second centry. Hock. 3. 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. 4. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. 5. A catalogue of saints sckowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. 6. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. (more info) LL. canon, and, for sense 7, F. chanoine, LL. canonicus), fr. L. canon a measuring line, rule, model, fr. Gr. Cane, and cf. 1. A law or rule. Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self- slaughter. Shak.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CANON)

• Rule
• Regulation
• law
• precept
• principle
• maxim
• practice
• guide
• canon
• order
• method
• direction
• authority
• control
• mastery
• government
• decision
• determination
• habit

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of CANON)

• Neglect
• abandon
• license
• berate
• free
• mismanage
• misconduct

Related words: (words related to CANON)

• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• MISMANAGER
  One who manages ill.
• PRECEPTIAL
  Preceptive. would give preceptial medicine to rage. Shak.
• CONTROLLABLENESS
  Capability of being controlled.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• HABITED
  1. Clothed; arrayed; dressed; as, he was habited like a shepherd. 2. Fixed by habit; accustomed. So habited he was in sobriety. Fuller. 3. Inhabited. Another world, which is habited by the ghosts of men and women. Addison.
• CANON BONE
  The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
• CANON
  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. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• METHOD
  Classification; a mode or system of classifying natural objects according to certain common characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the method of Ray; the Linnæan method. Syn. -- Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode; course;
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• PRECEPTRESS
  A woman who is the principal of a school; a female teacher.
• CONTROLLABILITY
  Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
• GUIDEBOOK
  A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.
• CANONIST
  A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.
• CANONRY
  A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
• METHODIZE
  To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts. Spectator.
• MAXIMIZATION
  The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. Bentham.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• COHABITER
  A cohabitant. Hobbes.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• PROTUBERATE
  To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out. S. Sharp.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• MISGOVERNMENT
  Bad government; want of government. Shak.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.