canonic
adjective/kəˈnɒnɪk/
/kəˈnɑːnɪk/
- (music) in the form of a canon
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- (also canonical)included in a list of holy books that are accepted as what they are claimed to be
- the canonic Gospels of the New Testament
- (also canonical)according to the law of the Christian Church
- canonic law
- (also canonical)accepted as belonging to the group of writers or works of literature that must be highly respected
- canonic writers like Jane Austen
- (also canonical)accepted as being true, correct and established
- the canonic methods of science as taught in the classroom
- (specialist) (also canonical)in the simplest accepted form in mathematics
- the standard canonic form for a matrix
Word OriginOld English (as a noun): from Old French canonique or Latin canonicus ‘canonical’, from Greek kanonikos, from kanon ‘rule’. The adjective dates from the late 15th cent.
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