Canons

(By the term canons we designate those rules which the holy Fathers have laid down, in which it has been written how canons (canonici), i.e. regular clerics, ought to live). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

(Please note when I use the term canons of Western Culture I am referring to the philosophical underpinning of our society, which were articulated by Harold Bloom and Mortimer Adler and others of the University of Chicago ❋ Unknown (2009)

The most straightforward of all canons is the round .... ❋ M-mv (2003)

Nor do my masters (so he called his canons) break and destroy a quiet that knows no dissent, for they think me gentle and mild. ❋ Unknown (1886)

The various lists and bibliographies that have been mistakenly called canons, I tried to show, are arbitrary; they are selections without a larger principle; they are founded not on a distinction but on convenience. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Since the feminism revolution and the post structuralism movement, there has not been, to my opinion, a more radical, yet subtle attack towards, what we call, the Western canon [1], also known as the canons of Dead White European Males [2], whose accepted practices are characterized primarily by an ongoing establishment of knowledge hierarchies - serious rankings of what counts and what does not according to pre-established sets of standards. ❋ Unknown (2007)

But in practice, the so-called canons are ill-defined, and Specific canons 'are often countered ... by some maxim pointing in a different direction.' ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)

There were no monastic buildings: Lincoln Cathedral was not run by monks, but by priests called canons, who lived in ordinary town houses near the church. ❋ FOLLETT, Ken (1989)

A staff of clergy was formed who came to be called canons; other endowments by degrees added; the services at St. Paul's maintained as ❋ Arthur Dimock (N/A)

Church were known as canons, and, of several codes of canon law which had been prepared, that of a monk named Gratian, compiled in the twelfth century, was the most widely used. ❋ Carlton J. H. Hayes (1923)

In a sixteenth-century document the members of this order are referred to as canons regular and mendicants. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Two of the oldest (41, 42) among the so-called canons of the Apostles forbade games of chance under pain of excommunication to clergy and laity alike. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Dionysius Exignus, a Western canonist of the first half of the sixth century, noted that "many accept with difficulty the so-called canons of the Apostles". ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

It must be borne in mind that the object which the Church has always had in view in promulgating her canons has been the guidance and preservation of the clergy and laity in the duties of a Christian life and in the best methods of ecclesiastical administration. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

The laws of the Northumbrian priests imposed a fine upon all who should "hallow housel" in a wooden chalice and the so-called canons of Ælfric repeated the injunction that chalices of molten material, gold, silver, glass (glaesen) or tin should be used, not horn, and especially not wood. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

If you're talking about [Lord of the Rings] and [Star Wars] at the same time, you're talking about two different [Canons]. ❋ Nscangal (2005)

“George was not a [canon] character is the series, but they used it in their AU, regardless.” “My AU was not canon to the original plot in the movie, but I think people will like this spin on the story.” “They had made their own [head-canon], where Lucy had survived [the explosion].” ❋ EggyYolkZ (2021)

Canonically, the [Among Us] impostors are [an alien] species that can [shapeshift]. ❋ Slymeball (2021)

Her [fanfiction] ideas screwed around with the canon storyline of [Buffy]: [The Vampire] Slayer. ❋ Kathy (2003)

I just finished reading the "canonical [list] of [auto] [plurals]" on manofleisure.us ❋ Khiddy (2004)

I got sad at the end of [Rurouni Kenshin]: Seisouhen. Good thing it took out a lot of chunks from the original plot and wasn't written by [Nobuhiro Watsuki], or else it would have been considered canon. :D ~~~~~~~~ Oh my GOD that [Naruto fan] fiction SUCKED! Thank God it wasn't canon. ❋ Gunslingergirlvy_c_e (2007)

The canonical sum of products form for [representing] the [boolean] function OR is simply [A + B] ❋ Mkalo (2004)

1. [All saints] are accepted into the canon of saints through a process known as [canonization]. 2. All the Jedi were hunted down and destroyed by millions of [Stormtroopers] through a process known as canonization. ❋ De Frosting Le Lobster (2010)

"A lot of people consider [Chell] to be the daughter of Cave & [Caroline], but it's by no means [canon]." ❋ Meimeiriver (2011)

[Jaden]/[Syrus] is almost as canon to [shonen] fans as Jaden/Alexis is to het fans. ❋ The New Bat Girl (2006)