canonic

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The theory of music.
• noun One who practises music.
• Same as canonical.
• noun [Gr. το\ κανονικόν, neut. of κανονικός: see above.] In the Epicurean philosophy, a name for logic, considered as supplying a norm or rule to which reasoning has to conform.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• adjective Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.
• adjective Appearing in a Biblical canon.
• adjective Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
• adjective (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.
• adjective (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality. Opposite of nonstandard.
• adjective Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
• adjective those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
• adjective an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic.
• adjective (Math.) the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality.
• adjective certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church.
• adjective letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics.
• adjective the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
• adjective submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
• adjective such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
• adjective (Anc. Church.) those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.

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• adjective canonical

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• adjective of or relating to or required by canon law
• adjective conforming to orthodox or recognized rules
• adjective reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality
• adjective appearing in a biblical canon