Definizione monolingua

canonical

canonical (plural canonicals)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest
   • 1857, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857^[1]:

     He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.

   • 1915, H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent^[2]:

     When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowds will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.

   • 1891, Emily Sarah Holt, The White Lady of Hazelwood^[3]:

     Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

1. Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

   The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.

2. According to recognised or orthodox rules.

   The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.

3. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

   This definition would be more useful if it were canonical.

4. Prototypical.
5. (religion) In conformity with canon law.
6. (music) In the form of a canon.
7. (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
8. (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.

Definizione dizionario canonical

	canonico
	In conformity with canon law.
	Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality.

canonica

Altri significati:

Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

(mathematics, computing) In canonical form.

(Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest

According to recognised or orthodox rules.

(religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter

Prototypical.

(religion) In conformity with canon law.

Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

(music) In the form of a canon.