Word Meanings - PROTOCANONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to PROTOCANONICAL)

• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• 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.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• DEUTERONOMY
  The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second giving of the law by Moses.
• DEUTEROZOOID
  One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced by budding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals having alternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints are deuterozooids.
• CANONIST
  A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.
• DEUTEROGENIC
  Of secondary origin; -- said of certain rocks whose material has been derived from older rocks.
• 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.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.