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as in: a canonical requirement Define
an official or established rule or principle; or a collection of such rules or principles (often in reference to rules or principles of a church)
- The drinking of the cocktails was as canonical a rite as the mixing.
- Their actions violate the canon of proportional response.
- It is the canonical subjection in the full force of its abnegation.Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
- Babbitt was again without a canon which would enable him to speak with authority.
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as in: a canonical requirement Define
an official or established rule or principle; or a collection of such rules or principles (often in reference to rules or principles of a church)
as in: the Shakespearean canon
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an authoritative list of works or people -- such as the complete works of an author or the saints of the Roman Catholic Church
as in: played a canon
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a melody that, after a short interval, is exactly repeated by a different instrument or voice to create competing melodic lines (a strict counterpoint)
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