For many years he lived in the most commodious canonical house in the Close with his sisters Sophia and Sarah.
Children were born in Decanal, Rectorial and Canonical homes.
Cyril, the president, apparently regarded the subscription of the legates as the acknowledgment of "canonical agreement" with the synod.
With the earlier Fathers and Apologists it had all the weight of a canonical book, but towards the close of the 3rd and the beginning of the 4th century it began to be discredited, and finally fell under the ban of the Church.
The wisdom recorded in the canonical rolls of Hermes quickly attained in this transcendental lore, all that human curiosity can ever discover.
I accept no accusation, unless I be first invested with my bishopric, or unless it be awarded by a canonical judgment that I must be charged and make answer and be judged before such investiture.
They observe unwearied the canonical hours, adding nothing foreign thereto, except a vigil for the dead.
Jewish criticism rightly declined to recognise this book as prophetic, and relegated it to the latest collection of canonical scriptures.
IX We have now completed our comparison of the fragment with the canonical Gospels, and are able to form some opinion of its relative antiquity and relationship to our Gospels.
The only part of the words put into their mouths by the author which at all corresponds with anything in the canonical narratives is that regarding the opening of the sepulchre.
The variation, however, is not that of a writer compiling a narrative from the canonical Gospels, but the distinct representation of one independently making use of similar, but separate, materials.
Of course there is nothing corresponding to this in the canonical Gospels.
The Gospel according to Peter, which escaped the successive revisals of the canonical Gospels, probably presents the more original form of such histories.
Tischendorf urges that in the writings of Justin the Gospels are placed side by side with the prophets, and that "this undoubtedly places the Gospels in the list of canonical books.
Seven times a day he is to recite the canonical hours, and, in addition, the Paternoster ten times each day and twenty times each night.
Moreover, this pecuniary penalty was not to relieve them from the canonical punishment attendant upon the non-fulfilment of the obligations assumed.
The greatest of the apocalypses are no doubt the canonical ones, Daniel and Revelation; and they are great in their confidence in the divine government of the world, and in its final vindication, and in their assertion of the martyr virtues.
Jephthah, then, is distinctly held up to us by a canonicalwriter as an object of praise.
In undertaking to answer them, it is to be remembered that there is a considerable variety of opinion which is held in more or less precise conformity with doctrinal or canonicaldeclarations of the church.
Eastern nature of the external evidence and the homily's quasi-canonical status in the Codex-Alexandrinus strongly favour an Alexandrine origin.
Codex A) of the New Testament, but this does not imply that it ever reached canonical rank.
In the course of the debate, the advocates of increased severity against poor Lollards were asked, it seems, to point out, if they could, a single passage in the Canonical Scriptures which commands the capital punishment of heretics.
I know not any of the articles which seem to thwart his opinions; but the thoughts of obedience, whether canonical or civil, raised his indignation.
These expressions are, I find, applied to the subscription of the articles; but it seems more probable that they relate to canonical obedience.
He was thought not only to have written the books of the Pentateuch but to have given to them official sanction as canonical books.
Jewish canon, the Writings, is believed to have acquired canonical authority during the second and first centuries B.
Such a marriage had been branded as sin by canonical law, and the Pope himself had great doubts whether it was competent for him to grant a dispensation in such a case.
It contained an interesting proviso that nothing should be judged to be heresy which was not condemned by canonical Scripture, or by the first four General Councils "or any of them.
He was at this time curate of Hoole, near Preston, having recently taken orders in the Church of England, although, according to the received accounts, he had not attained the canonical age.
Doric parts of the Peloponnesus, the ascendancy, the national importance and the almostcanonical character which they ever afterwards retained.
About the discord of philosophic opinion, and the concord of the Scriptures that are held as canonical by the Church.
We cannot deny that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, left some divine writings, for this is asserted by the Apostle Jude in his canonical epistle.
He also is found to have prophesied in his books, of which three are received as of canonical authority, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Songs.
Down to this time the people of Israel had prophets; but, although they were numerous, the canonical writings of only a few of them have been preserved among the Jews and among us.
And although we do not find his date in the chronicles, yet from his book, which for its merit the Israelites have received as of canonical authority, we gather that he was in the third generation after Israel.
For though there is some truth in these apocryphal writings, yet they contain so many false statements, that they have no canonical authority.
But to point out how each of them supports his own opinion would take too long, and is not necessary; for indeed they use human conjectures, and bring forward nothing certain from the authority of the canonical Scriptures.
A canonical term for regular induction into a benefice, comprehending nomination, collation, and installation.
Time of morning service; the first canonicalhour in the Roman Catholic Church.
The office for the sixth canonical hour, being a part of the Breviary.
The third canonical book of the Old Testament, containing the laws and regulations relating to the priests and Levites among the Hebrews, or the body of the ceremonial law.
The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.
The last division of the Roman Catholic breviary; the seventh and last of the canonical hours of the Western church; the last prayer of the day, to be said after sunset.
Specifically, it denoted the first canonical hour, as now.
An indulgence of forty days, corresponding to the forty days of ancient canonical penance.
But there soon arose a particular school of Nazarenes, who believed a gospel different from the four canonical ones.
To which the archbishop sagely thought most canonical and conformable to Christian charity and the gospel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "canonical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
