† discanonv.
Obsolete (rare after 17th cent.)
transitive. = discanonize v. 2.
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1603 M. Kellison Surv. New Relig. i. 37 It is so vsual a thing amongest them [sc. heretics] to discanon bookes of scripture.
1608 S. Hieron 2nd Pt. Def. Ministers Reasons 218 He acknowledgeth arguments more forcible..to discanon those bookes.
1675 N. French Dolefull Fall of Andrew Sall iii. 22 By this privat Spiritt you Protestants..dis [c] anon the Books of the Machabees, Ecclesiasticus, and others.
1837 M. D. Talbot Series of Lett. 15 July 38 We abuse the Sacred Scriptures, if we take them and dis-canon them..by our private interpretations, contrary to the traditions and unanimous exposition of the Church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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