canonical

Modifying Another Word

• not: The answers put forth here most definitely are not canonical.
• almost: These monastic manuals and compendiums of knowledge came to dominate the intellectual life of monastic institutions and gained an almost canonical status.
• even: Yet for anyone versed in post-war British politics, The Future of Socialism is a vintage, even canonical text.
• therefore: Our witness there must be spiritual, only thus is our help positive and therefore canonical.

Modifies a noun

• variate: This method of interpreting canonical variates is identical to the manner in which factors are interpreted in factor analysis.
• obedience: Over more than 60 years I have heard many clergy swear their oath of canonical obedience.
• gospel: For these reasons the four canonical gospels are not reliable.
• scripture: There is no support in the canonical scriptures for these assertions.
• ensemble: Similar behavior is seen for the Landau free energy in the canonical ensemble.
• correlation: The problem of extracting factor scores; canonical correlations.

Used with adjective complement

• consider: In the context of the Berkeley students who worked on BSD, Evi's comments are considered canonical.
• call: We can, however, express such limitations as recommendations, in which case a representation satisfying them is called canonical.
• become: Once a single more or less coherent narrative is achieved, it can become canonical.
• accept: In Carthage 1 Peter was known, and soon accepted as canonical.
• use: Where a serial is unambiguously known by a mnemonic form, that form must be used as canonical in place of the ISSN.

Preposition: in

sense: There were not three successive stages at which these three collections of books were in turn recognized as canonical in the technical sense.