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Entry 6 senses Webster, 1913

canonic

/(kȧ*nŏn"ĭk)/ · ca·non·ic · IPA /kənˈɑnək/
01 a. Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.
  1. 1.
    Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons.
  2. 2.
    Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament.
  3. 3.
    Accepted as authoritative; recognized.
  4. 4.
    In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate.(Math.)
  5. 5.
    Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.(Linguistics)
  6. 6.
    Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon.
Phrases & compounds
Canonical books — those books which are declared by the canons of the church to be of divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
Canonical epistles — an appellation given to the epistles called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles, under Canholic.
Canonical form — the simples or most symmetrical form to which all functions of the same class can be reduced without lose of generality.
Canonical hours — certain stated times of the day, fixed by ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish church.
Canonical letters — letters of several kinds, formerly given by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that they were entitled to receive the communion, and to distinguish them from heretics.
Canonical life — the method or rule of living prescribed by the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
Canonical obedience — submission to the canons of a church, especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
Canonical punishments — such as the church may inflict, as excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
Canonical sins — those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy.
Syn. standard.