Present in a canon, religious or otherwise.
The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.
According to recognised or orthodox rules.
The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.
Stated or used in the most basic and straightforwardly applicable manner.
the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form
The formal robes of a priest.
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.
From Middle English canonycal, from Medieval Latin canōnicālis. By surface analysis, canon + -ical.
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