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a collection of books accepted as holy scripture especially the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired a complete list of saints that have been recognized by the Roman Catholic Church a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy; "the neoclassical canon"; "canons of polite society" a contrapuntal piece of music in which a melody in one part is imitated exactly in other parts a priest who is a member of a cathedral chapter a ravine formed by a river in an area with little rainfall |
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