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canonic, a. (and n.)|kəˈnɒnɪk|
[ad. L. canonic-us, = Gr. κανονικός of or according to canon2; or a. F. canonique. Already in OE. as n. = modern canon n.2]
A. adj.
1. Authorized by, or according to, ecclesiastical canons; = canonical 1.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 219/1 Euery day atte vii houres canonyques. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 516/2 By an olde canonike and sure grounded custom of y⊇ churche. 1663Butler Hud. i. i. 257. 1664 Dryden Rival Ladies i. ii, 'Tis Evening now, and the Canonick Hours For Marriage are past. 1812Combe (Dr. Syntax) Picturesque viii, The Doctor, in canonic state, Now op'd at once the churchyard gate.
2. Of or pertaining to the canon of Scripture; = canonical 2.
1634–46Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 53 Some portion of holie Canonick Scripture. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845) 6 The Church's last prayer in canonic Scripture is for union. 1835I. Taylor Spir. Despot. iv. 150 Not to be traced in the canonic writings.
3. gen. Having the authority of an accepted rule or type; classic; = canonical 4.
1850J. Leitch tr. Müller's Anc. Art §138. 115 His numerous pictures of gods and heroes (as his Theseus) attained a canonic consideration in art.
4. Mus. Following the strict rules of canon-form. (Cf. canonical 6.)
1854tr. Cherubini's Counterpoint 45 Canonic imitation is that where the consequent responds to the antecedent, note for note, from beginning to end. 1879Grove Dict. Mus. I. 654 The voices move, in strict canonic imitation, on a groundbass.
5. Of or belonging to the order of canons; = canonical 7.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 426/1 They toke not the canonyke breed, for the chanonnes that were at yt tyme..gouerned them self after the reule of Saynt Austyn.
B. n.
1. = canon n.2; one in canonical orders. (L. canonicus.)
a1000Laws of Ethelbert vi. 2 (Bosw.) Godes þeowas, biscopas and abbodas, munecas and mynecene, canonicas and nunnan. 1678R. Barclay Apol. Quakers xii. §x. 443 Ten Canonicks, so called, were burnt for that Crime. a1853Landor Wks. I. 60/1 The bones had been verified..in presence of the archbishop, the canonics, and the protonotary.
2. A scheme or system of logical rules or dialectic; = the Epicurean τὸ κανονικόν.
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 548/2 Thus may this short Canonick or Treatise of Rules, serve instead of a laborious and prolix Dialectick. 1847Lewes Hist. Philos. viii. ii. (1871) I. 351 The Epicurean Logic called Canonic, which is a collection of rules respecting human reason and its application.
†3.
a. The theory of music or harmony (ἡ κανονική).
b. One who studies music theoretically (of the Pythagoreans, who were called οἱ κανονικοί).
1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1701) 385/1 The Pythagoreans named that which we now call Harmonick, Canonick..A Canonick in general is a Harmonick, who is conversant about that which consists of Harmony. |