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canon
1 a: a regulation or dogma decreed by a church council b: a provision of canon law2
[Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin, from Latin, model]
: the most solemn and unvarying part of the Mass including the consecration of the bread and wine3
[Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin, standard]
a: an authoritative list of books accepted as Holy Scripture b: the authentic works of a writer c: a sanctioned or accepted group or body of related works <the canon of great literature>4 a: an accepted principle or rule b: a criterion or standard of judgment c: a body of principles, rules, standards, or norms5
[Late Greek kanōn, from Greek, model]
: a contrapuntal musical composition in which each successively entering voice presents the initial theme usually transformed in a strictly consistent way
synonyms see law
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