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Crossword-Solution: CANON 5 letters, 276 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Canon n. A law or rule.
Canon 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.
Canon 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.
Canon n. In monasteries, a book containing the rules of a religious
order.
Canon n. A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the
Roman Catholic Church.
Canon n. A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a
prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.
Canon 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.
Canon n. The largest size of type having a specific name; -- so
called from having been used for printing the canons of the church.
Canon n. The part of a bell by which it is suspended; -- called also
ear and shank.
Canon n. See Carom.

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Word Anagrams
CANON anagram ANCON, CONAN, NOCAN

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Any law or decree. 1 answer
Author's lifework 1 answer
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Axiomatic law. 1 answer
Axiomatic rule 1 answer
Bach's "Goldberg Variations," for example 1 answer
Basic reading 1 answer
Big name in cameras and copiers 1 answer
Bishop's law 1 answer
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Body of written work of the highest quality 1 answer
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Camera brand that sounds like a weapon 1 answer
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Cathedral aide 1 answer
Cathedral clergyman. 1 answer
Cathedral cleric 1 answer
Cathedral dignitary. 1 answer
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Church's rule 1 answer
Clergyman on the staff of a cathedral. 1 answer
Clergyman who got fired? 1 answer
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Composition where entering voices do the initial theme 1 answer
Comprehensive book list 1 answer
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Critical standard. 1 answer
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Ecclesiastical decree 1 answer
Ecclesiastical law 1 answer
Ecclesiastical law established by a church council 1 answer
Ecclesiastical rule 1 answer
Established precept 1 answer
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Sentences with CANON (5)

The word `canon' derives ultimately from the Greek `kanon' (akin to the English `cane') referring to a reed.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
Reeds were used for measurement, and in Latin and later Greek the word `canon' meant a rule or a standard.
The Jargon File, Version 2.9.10, 01 Jul 1992 Various 1992
She shocked no canon of taste; she was admirably in keeping with herself, and never jarred against surrounding circumstances.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
Besides the massive golden signet ring, which marked his ecclesiastical dignity, his fingers, though contrary to the canon, were loaded with precious gems; his sandals were of the finest leather which was imported from Spain; his beard trimmed to as small dimensions as his order would possibly permit, and his shaven crown concealed by a scarlet cap richly embroidered.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
The Council of Trent included all but three of these in the canon of inspired books having equal authority.
Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with CANON (3)

It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may be called. For reason is the faculty which supplies the *principles* of *a priori* knowledge. Pure reason therefore is that which contains the principles of knowing something entirely *a priori*. An *organon* of pure reason would be the sum total of the principles by which all pure *a priori* knowledge can be acquired and actually established. Exhaustive application of such…
Immanuel Kant Critique of Pure Reason
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'dHis canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperi…
William Shakespeare Hamlet
To me, quotes function as the sunscreen against a writers brilliance. As soon as I cannot stand to look at the magnificence of the acropolis of pure thought the writer managed to doll out in the cognizant chaos - I quote him, and by doing so I am discharged and freed. On the other hand, even while I do acknowledge that some things cannot be quoted, I vehemently distrust any writer whose army of quotes does not consist of impeccable warriors but the sort of bootless canon fodd…
Martijn Benders
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 201 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).