Word Meanings - CANONICALS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dress prescribed by canon to be worn by a clergyman when oficiating. Sometimes, any distinctive professional dress. Full canonicals, the complete costume of an officiating clergyman or ecclesiastic.

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• CANONISTIC
  Of or pertaining to a canonist. "This canonistic exposition." Milton.
• CANONICITY
  The state or quality of being canonical; agreement with the canon.
• CANON BONE
  The shank bone, or great bone above the fetlock, in the fore and hind legs of the horse and allied animals, corresponding to the middle metacarpal or metatarsal bone of most mammals. See Horse.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• DISTINCTIVENESS
  State of being distinctive.
• ECCLESIASTICALLY
  In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.
• CANON
  A law, or rule of doctrine or discipline, enacted by a council and confirmed by the pope or the sovereign; a decision, regulation, code, or constitution made by ecclesiastical authority. Various canons which were made in councils held in the second
• CANONICALLY
  ; according to the canons.
• COMPLETE
  Having all the parts or organs which belong to it or to the typical form; having calyx, corolla, stamens, and pistil. Syn. -- See Whole. (more info) 1. Filled up; with no part or element lacking; free from deficienty; entire; perfect; consummate.
• DISTINCTIVE
  1. Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. The distinctive character and institutions of New England. Bancroft. 2. Having the power to distinguish and discern; discriminating. Sir T. Browne.
• CANONIST
  A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law. South.
• COMPLETENESS
  The state of being complete.
• CANONRY
  A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
• COSTUME
  custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate
• OFFICIATE
  To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• CLERGYMAN
  An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to peach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church.
• DRESS CIRCLE
  A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
• PROFESSIONALISM
  The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; - - opposed to Ant: amateurism.
• DRESSING
  An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• PROTOCANONICAL
  Of or pertaining to the first canon, or that which contains the authorized collection of the books of Scripture; -- opposed to deutero-canonical.
• REDRESSIVE
  Tending to redress. Thomson.
• INCOMPLETE
  Wanting any of the usual floral organs; -- said of a flower. Incomplete equation , an equation some of whose terms are wanting; or one in which the coefficient of some one or more of the powers of the unknown quantity is equal to 0. (more info)
• ADDRESS
  To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
• TOP-DRESSING
  The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.