canonicとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /kəˈnɒn.ɪ.kl̩/

形容詞

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

1. Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.

   The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.

2. According to recognised or orthodox rules.

   The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.

3. Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.

   This definition would be more useful if it were canonical.

4. Prototypical.
5. (religion) In conformity with canon law.
6. (music) In the form of a canon.
7. (religion) Of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter
8. (mathematics, computing) In canonical form.

反意語

• (scripture): apocryphal

派生語

• canonically

名詞

canonical (複数形 canonicals)

1. (Roman Catholicism) The formal robes of a priest
   • 1857 Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 1, Issue 2, December, 1857^[1]:

     He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.

   • 1915 H. G. Wells, The Research Magnificent^[2]:

     When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.

   • 1891 Emily Sarah Holt, The White Lady of Hazelwood^[3]:

     Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.