canonicals

Official priestly garments

Canonicals are the official vestments worn by clergy during religious services—robes, stoles, and other garments prescribed by church tradition.

The term extends to any clothing or regalia required for a formal role or ceremony: The judges entered in their canonicals.

More broadly, canonicals can refer to things considered standard or authoritative in any domain.

ecclesiastical

clergy

Ordained religious officials collectively

  • vestmentsCeremonial religious attire
  • hoursSixty-minute spans
  • lawBinding principle or regulation

robes · office · orders · regulations · governance · administration · diocesan · synod · tribunal · decrees

religious

saints

Canonized religious figures

hagiography · liturgical · feast days · relics · shrines · devotion · intercession · miracles · canonization · papal

literary

authoritative

Having recognized expertise

scripture · accepted · authentic · original · corpus · works · established · recognized · official · classical

computing

URLs

Web address acronym

normalized · naming · conventions · routing · addresses · domains · resources · endpoints · references · links

mathematical

standard form

Conventional way of expressing

unique · minimal · basis · transformation · matrix · polynomial · coordinate · parametrization · normalization · invariant

Opposites
clerical attire type

canonicalsstreet clothes

Ordinary daily attire

plainclothes · casual wear · mufti · work clothes

official status

canonicalsapocrypha

Works of doubtful authenticity

heterodoxy · rejected texts · pseudepigrapha · folk traditions

standardization

canonicalsvariants

Differing forms of something

alternatives · derivative works · fan fiction · adaptations · bootlegs

Phrases
Family

canonical, noncanonical, canonicalized

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