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Inscribing the most sacred symbol on something profane and worldly, such as money, works against the religious canons.
In the arts, literary and artistic canons are no longer restricted to the work of men.
The queen of the skies taxied onto the apron at Ringway through a welcoming arch of water canons blasted from a pair of airport fire engines.
In AD 816, during his archiepiscopacy, the Council of Chelsea enacted eleven canons to regulate the services and the government of the Church.
So far we've found decking and timber lined with leather which was a feature of the period and we've also uncovered canons.
Polyphony is even more intricate in this piece, with double fugati, crab canons, and the listener delighted by the humour.
I suppose all crab canons do this, but Bach's is the first I'd ever heard of.
He spent about a year of rigorous self-study fooling around with canons, fugues, invertible counterpoint, and so on.
By reflecting on this process and refining it, we arrive at the canons of inductive inference.
The norms are an amplification of the canons of the Code which are to be applied in cases of alleged commission of canonical crimes.
By office, John served as one of thirty canons at Saint-Martin's, which was one of seven collegiate churches in Liege.
The penitential canons are imposed only on the living, and, according to them, nothing should be imposed on the dying.
Even though government had formally dispersed monks in cloisters, clerks and canons regular survived after unification.
A synod held at Hertford in 672 established the first basic canons for Church government.
But Tacitus did not write according to the canons of modern historiography.
But in actuality, the leading Minimalists have been hardly less heroized than prior members of the elite of art historical canons.
The same change of perspective might equally apply in our attitudes about the canons, and canonists, generally.
They noted that Archbishop Louis de Villars had founded a college of canons at SaintNizier as a new enterprise on his own authority.
A monastery is a more or less self-contained settlement constructed to house a community of monks or canons.
Higden apart, these were all secular clerks rather than monks or canons regular.
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Examples from Classical Literature
There he hunted and studied astronomy and astrology with the canons of Bolton.
The canons receive their pay from their stipends, and are content therewith.
I paced silently to and fro in the aisles, whilst the canons were chaunting vespers.
He is the thew of the Anglo-Saxon dooms, the servus of the ecclesiastical canons.
Its technique departed from the sacred traditions of Kano and Tosa brushwork and the inheritance of Chinese painting canons.
The medieval surgeon arranged his rules in ten distinct canons, creating in this way a kind of decalogue of dental hygiene.
It can most compendiously be demonstrated with the help of the preceding canons.
The canons of the house are mentioned amongst the tenants in chief in domesday.
The canons for whom these beautiful homes were constructed had only to cross the parvis to enter the cathedral.
In the evening it was the custom for the canons to chaunt vespers with great pomp.
The special constitutions of the order were largely taken from those of the premonstratensian canons and of the Cistercians.
Something, for instance, has already been said of its relation to the canons of reputability.
But outside England catches and canons were undifferentiated.
It is a system of arbitrary canons, originating in pure caprice.
The ghastly, treeless, grassless, breathless canons smothered us as if we had been in an oven.
The canons, prebends, and placemen had been chosen with great care.
To argue otherwise is a clear transgression of the canons that dissenting clergy and congregational members have foresworn.
It was over the barrenest chalk-hills and through the baldest canons that even Syria can show.
Dense chaparral covered the exposed hillsides but in the creases of the canons huge spruce trees grew, and wild oats and flowers.
The marchese, sometimes, and the canons of the collegiate Church.
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