单词 | the canon |
释义 | > as lemmasthe canon a. A rule, law, or decree of the Church; esp. a rule laid down by an ecclesiastical Council. the canon (collectively) = canon law n. at sense 1b. The Canons, in the Church of England = ‘The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical’ agreed upon by Convocation, and ratified by King James I under the Great Seal in 1603. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] the canonc890 canon law1387 decretal right1489 pontificial law1651 nomocanon1728 society > faith > aspects of faith > law > canon law > [noun] > rule of canonc890 c890 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. iv. xxiv. (Bosw.) Canones boc. a900 Laws of Ælfred xxi, in Thorpe II. 376 (Bosw.) Ða canonas openlice beodaþ. a1300 Cursor Mundi 26290 Als þe hali canon [v.r. -oun] vs sais þat scrift on sere-kin sines lais. 1451 Treaty w. Scotl. in T. Rymer Fœdera (1710) XI. 288 Maister Robert Dobbes, Doctor of Canon. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. ix. 254 The canon deffendeth expresly al manere of bataille and violent hurt. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxi. 137 A sacred Canon of the sixt reuerend Synod. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 144 Selfe-loue, which is the most inhibited sinne in the Cannon . View more context for this quotation 1658 J. Bramhall Consecration Protestant Bishops Justified viii. 171 The Papall Canons were never admitted for binding Lawes in England. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. vi. 326 A code of new canons had recently been established in convocation with the king's assent. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany viii. 131 A priest is expressly forbidden by the canons..to enter a public inn. the canon a. Literary Criticism. A body of literary works traditionally regarded as the most important, significant, and worthy of study; those works of esp. Western literature considered to be established as being of the highest quality and most enduring value; the classics (now frequently in the canon). Also (usually with qualifying word): such a body of literature in a particular language, or from a particular culture, period, genre, etc. ΚΠ 1929 Amer. Lit. 1 95 Those who read bits of Mather with pleasure will continue to feel that those bits cannot be excluded from the canon of literature until much excellent English ‘utilitarian’ prose is similarly excluded. 1953 W. R. Trask tr. E. R. Curtius European Lit. & Lat. Middle Ages xiv. 264 Of the modern literatures, the Italian was the first to develop a canon. 1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 7 July 739 My Secret History..alludes to half the modernist canon, from Eliot to Hemingway to Henry Miller. 1999 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 4 Nov. 29/2 The canon was under attack from feminists and social historians who saw it as the preserve of male and bourgeois dominance. < as lemmas |
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