Canonical synonyms

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authoritative
Highly accurate or definitive; treated or worthy of treatment as a scholarly authority
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legal (related)
The definition of legal is something connected to law or a government’s system of rules.
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usual (related)
Most commonly occurring
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accepted
Generally approved, believed, or recognized.
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statutory
Declared by statute to be such, and hence legally punishable
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lawful (related)
In conformity with the principles of the law; permitted by law
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official (related)
The definition of official is authorized, or is someone who holds a position of authority.
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customary
Holding or held by custom; as, customary tenants; customary service or estate.
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orthodox
Of or relating to Orthodox Judaism.
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proper
Specially adapted or suitable to a specific purpose or specific conditions; appropriate
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unorthodox (antonym)
Breaking with convention or tradition; not orthodox.
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unauthorized (antonym)
Not having any authority
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unacceptable (antonym)
(Linguistics) not conforming to accepted usage
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unrecognized (antonym)
Not recognized
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uncanonical (antonym)
Not canonical.
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unsanctioned (antonym)
Not sanctioned; not approved by a sanctioning body.
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received
Generally accepted as correct or true
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time-honored
Honored or observed because in existence or use for a long time
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basic
Of, being, or serving as a starting point or basis:
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mariological
Of or pertaining to Mariology.
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abbatial
Belonging to, relating to, or pertaining to an abbey, abbot, or abbess. [Late 17th century.]
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abbatical
(Obsolete) Alternative form of abbatial. [Attested from the mid 17th century until the mid 19th century.]
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archiepiscopal
Of or having to do with an archbishop or an archbishopric.
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creedal
Of or pertaining to a creed
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doctrinary
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physicotheological
Relating to physicotheology.
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prelatial
Pertaining to a prelate
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priest-ridden
Dominated or plagued by priests.
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priestish
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literal (related)
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scriptural (related)
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trinitarian (related)
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non-canonical (related)
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redaction (related)
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textual (related)
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pentateuch (related)
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christological (related)
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approved (related)
Having received approval.
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Canonical Sentence Examples

  • The emperor renounced investiture by ring and staff, and permitted canonical elections; the pope on his part recognized the king's right to perform lay investiture and to assist at elections.

  • As a little boy he would take his place among the pupils of the monastic school, though he would soon pass to the ranks of the teachers, and the fact that he was ordained deacon at nineteen, below the canonical age, shows that he was regarded as remarkable both for learning and goodness.

  • The discriminant is the resultant of ax and ax and of degree 8 in the coefficients; since it is a rational and integral function of the fundamental invariants it is expressible as a linear function of A 2 and B; it is independent of C, and is therefore unaltered when C vanishes; we may therefore take f in the canonical form 6R 4 f = BS5+5BS4p-4A2p5.

  • Hesse's canonical form shows at once that there cannot be more than two independent invariants; for if there were three we could, by elimination of the modulus of transformation, obtain two functions of the coefficients equal to functions of m, and thus, by elimination of m, obtain a relation between the coefficients, showing them not to be independent, which is contrary to the hypothesis.

  • For the history of Pali before the canonical books were composed we have no direct evidence.

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