Adjective : canonical works. ,the canonical form of the past tense; a canonical syllable pattern.    From Dictionary.com. 

The phenomenon of people not recognizing language abilities of those who don't look like the 'canonic' speaker is widely attested and works in all directions.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: NATIVE SPEAKER.] Reference

Osiris, who also summoned the annual floods, is often represented in the shape of a "canonic" vase with a stopper in the shape of a crowned head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al-Ahram Weekly Online] Reference

Two impressive canonic motets appeared in 1520 and 1521.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Though I would still need to chase it with more canonic fare.    From Wordnik.com.  [And you still] Reference

It may not be canonic, but it counts as a fine addition to the lore.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with David Zuzelo] Reference

It will be objected that any number of canonic masterpieces are gargantuan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don't Overstay Your Welcome In My Mind] Reference

Irregular canonic imitations in both spoken and vocal lines gave the witches initial shuddering presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodney Punt: The Mortal Thoughts of Lady Macbeth: A Chamber Opera of Horrors at Fais Do-Do] Reference

They still recognize what the canonic apple pie is, but the variations bespeak place, bespeak individual bakers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 17, 2004] Reference

On the one hand, Hook was immersing himself in what were considered canonic texts of Leninism; on the other hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidney Hook] Reference

The four canonic gospels were of a Gnostic source anyway since the original Christians were all inclined that way.    From Wordnik.com.  [18th April '05] Reference

At the end of the day, Gadamer claims, it is not really we who address the texts of tradition, but the canonic texts that address us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hermeneutics] Reference

But enrolled it may be in the iconography of medieval folklore, drawing authority, not from the canonic, but from Apocryphal Gospels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Max Ernst's Blasphemy] Reference

Asked what composers he's personally sick of, Libbey says: Of the canonic "great" composers, Robert Schumann is surely the most overrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dichter(kein)liebe] Reference

It has been a canonic commandment that our schools MUST have local control and anyone even suggesting that must be a communist, a fascist or both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Many Schools, Too Little Education] Reference

Such canonic procedures culminate in the two late multiply-canonic motets that circulated posthumously, Ave Maria (8vv) and Da pacem Domine (6vv).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Settings of the parts of the Mass are interpolated between a 14th-century Kyrie, Guilaume Dufay's high-intensity canonic "Gloria" and an Agnus Dei.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waverly Consort's medieval sound tests modern-day audiences] Reference

He is reputed to have written a canonic motet for 36 voices, but the 36-voice Deo gratias attributed to him in a 16th-century source is barely credible as his work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

In the canonic writings of these interpretations of Marx - ism, socialism is pictured as the irreversible and in - escapable fulfillment of an historical development and.    From Wordnik.com.  [MARXISM] Reference

Nevertheless, in some of the ‘Gloria’ sections of his canticles Purcell indulges in ingenious canonic writing, inspired it seems by earlier examples by Child and Blow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference

Reflecting Said's canonic tastes, this review of Maynard Solomon's.    From Wordnik.com.  [CounterPunch] Reference

The element of canonic imitation occurs in his works in wholly new form.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

A copy of Canadian Architect on his table, a model of the canonic 1924 Rietveld.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

This notion of the canonic must not be understood in narrow traditionalist terms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The aim is to get them to listen to canonic composers such as Beethoven and Chopin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

He is the author of the canonic four-volume history "Armenia on the Road to Independence.".    From Wordnik.com.  [UCLA Newsroom: UCLA Newsroom] Reference

I suggest, also, an even more general case for canonic musical value in the postmodern era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

The term "canonic style" is sometimes applied to music in which the imitation is not exact.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music Notation and Terminology] Reference

It was an application of the Netherlandish art of canonic imitation, combined with modern tonality.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

Aristotle, the founder of the science, designates it as "analytic", and the Epicureans use the term canonic.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

And while postmodern idioms of more classically based music are often supposed to be contra-canonic, I argue otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Pierre de l'Hospital, chancellor of Brittany, who is to preside over the civil hearings after the canonic judgment, assists Jean de.    From Wordnik.com.  [Là-bas] Reference

Dufay is also credited with having written pure canonic imitations without descending to the level of the rota, with its endless phrases.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference