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uncanonical en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + canonical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not canonical.
    • He was also that rare thing, a connoisseur of the uncanonical hybrid in art, as demonstrated by the presence of a headdress mask of a water spirit from Sierra Leone. 2007 January 10, Holland Cotter, “At Yale, Renovation Puts Africa in Spotlight”, in New York Times:
    • What I said in my epistle to my reverend friend and master, Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned bibliothecary of Oxford, I profess still; but I hold those canons of the apostles uncanonical. 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

Deriveds

uncanonically · uncanonicalness

Synonyms

noncanonical