1. (music) in the form of a canon

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2. (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
3. (also canonical)
   according to the law of the Christian Church
   • ● canonic law
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4. (also canonical)
   accepted as belonging to the group of writers or works of literature that must be highly respected
   • ● canonic writers like Jane Austen
5. (also canonical)
   accepted as being true, correct and established
   • ● the canonic methods of science as taught in the classroom
6. (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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