canon

1. n. A law or rule. Source: opted

2. n. 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. Source: opted

3. n. The collection of books received as genuine Holy Scriptures, called the sacred canon, or general rule of moral and religious duty, given by inspiration; the Bible; also, any one of the canonical Scriptures. See Canonical books, under Canonical, a. Source: opted

4. n. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious order. Source: opted

5. n. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church. Source: opted

6. n. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church. Source: opted

7. n. A musical composition in which the voices begin one after another, at regular intervals, successively taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation. Source: opted

8. n. The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so called from having been used for printing the canons of the church. Source: opted

9. n. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also ear and shank. Source: opted

10. n. See Carom. Source: opted

11. n. a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field of art or philosophy Source: wordnet

12. n. a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter Source: wordnet

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