canon

en-noun

canon (countable and uncountable, plural canons)

From Middle English canoun, from Old French canon and Old English canon, both from Latin canōn, from Ancient Greek κανών (kanṓn, “measuring rod, standard”), akin to κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Semitic (compare Hebrew קָנֶה (qane, “reed”) and Arabic قَنَاة (qanāh, “reed”)). Doublet of qanun. See also cane, cannon, canyon, canal.

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A eucharistic prayer, particularly the Roman Canon.

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A catalogue of saints acknowledged and canonized in the Roman Catholic Church.


dispensation

en-noun

dispensation (countable and uncountable, plural dispensations)

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō.

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Why, there has gone already to Rome a messenger to crave a second dispensation from his Popeship, and the King himself hath signed the request, praying that you and I should graciously be permitted to wed!

1905, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, May Margaret: called "the fair maid of Galloway," - Page 184

The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

(Catholicism) In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).


excommunication

excommunication (countable and uncountable, plural excommunications)

From the Late Latin excommūnicātiō. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumung.

The act of excommunicating, disfellowshipping or ejecting; especially an ecclesiastical censure whereby the person against whom it is pronounced is, for the time, cast out of the communication of the church; exclusion from fellowship in things spiritual.

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canonic

en-adj

canonic (comparative more canonic, superlative most canonic)

more canonic (comparative)
most canonic (superlative)


canonical

canonical (comparative more canonical, superlative most canonical)

more canonical (comparative)
most canonical (superlative)

(religion) In conformity with canon law.


interdict

en-verb

interdict (third-person singular simple present interdicts, present participle interdicting, simple past and past participle interdicted)

interdicts (present singular third-person)
interdicting (participle present)
interdicted (participle past)
interdicted (past)

From Middle English entrediten, from Old French entredire (“forbid”), from Latin interdīcō (“prohibit, forbid”), from inter- (“between”) + dīcō (“say”), from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-.

(transitive, Roman Catholicism) To exclude (someone or somewhere) from participation in church services; to place under a religious interdict.


dispense

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

dispenses (present singular third-person)
dispensing (participle present)
dispensed (participle past)
dispensed (past)

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

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to dispense justice

While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.

1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde

To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

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to apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct

The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.

An optician can dispense spectacles.

To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

doseren

to supply or make up a medicine or prescription

Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.

1643, John Milton, Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce

1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.

She was dispensed from her vows and married Captain von Trapp.

(particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

(intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.


dispense

en-noun

dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)


res judicata

From Latin rēs (“thing, matter, affair”) and jūdicata, feminine nominative singular form of jūdicatus, past participle of jūdico (“judge”).

(law) A legal claim that has already been decided in another lawsuit or proceeding, and therefore must be dismissed.

(law) The legal doctrine that claims already decided in a proceeding may not be brought in any later proceeding.


excommunicate

From Ecclesiastical Latin, Late Latin excommunicātus, perfect passive participle of excommunicō (“put out of the community”). By surface analysis, ex- + communicate. Displaced native Old English āmǣnsumian.


interdiction

interdiction (countable and uncountable, plural interdictions)

From Middle English, borrowed from French interdiction, itself a borrowing from Latin interdictiō.

the act of interdicting or something interdicted

Under Emergency War Powers Reg. 903.5, you are hereby authorized to assume command of the Normandy SR-2. You are directed to begin interdiction operations against any and all enemies posing a threat to Earth, its colonies, and its allies.

2012, BioWare, quoting Steven Hackett, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Reinstatement

the destruction of an enemy's military potential before it can be used


canon law

canon law (countable and uncountable, plural canon laws)

Canon law determines who is declared a saint.

Ah, well here comes Lucifer with his canon law

2013, “Higgs Boson Blues”, in Nick Cave (lyrics), Push the Sky Away, performed by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

(uncountable) The law of the church, religious law.

The canon law on this matter conflicts with several other canon laws.


material heresy

material heresy (plural material heresies)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of its being so.


canonical obedience

(Christianity) The obedience, as regulated by the canons, of one ecclesiastic to another of higher rank.


formal heresy

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis fōrmālis.

(Roman Catholicism) The teaching or expression of an opinion in the conscious knowledge that it is contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical.