'Canonical hours' definitions:

Definition of 'Canonical hours'

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  • Hour \Hour\, n. [OE. hour, our, hore, ure, OF. hore, ore, ure, F. heure, L. hora, fr. Gr. ?, orig., a definite space of time, fixed by natural laws; hence, a season, the time of the day, an hour. See Year, and cf. Horologe, Horoscope.]
  • 1. The twenty-fourth part of a day; sixty minutes. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The time of the day, as expressed in hours and minutes, and indicated by a timepiece; as, what is the hour? At what hour shall we meet? [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Fixed or appointed time; conjuncture; a particular time or occasion; as, the hour of greatest peril; the man for the hour. [1913 Webster]
  • Woman, . . . mine hour is not yet come. --John ii. 4. [1913 Webster]
  • This is your hour, and the power of darkness. --Luke xxii. 53. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. pl. (R. C. Ch.) Certain prayers to be repeated at stated times of the day, as matins and vespers. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. A measure of distance traveled. [1913 Webster]
  • Vilvoorden, three hours from Brussels. --J. P. Peters. [1913 Webster]
  • After hours, after the time appointed for one's regular labor.
  • Canonical hours. See under Canonical.
  • Hour angle (Astron.), the angle between the hour circle passing through a given body, and the meridian of a place.
  • Hour circle. (Astron.) (a) Any circle of the sphere passing through the two poles of the equator; esp., one of the circles drawn on an artificial globe through the poles, and dividing the equator into spaces of 15[deg], or one hour, each. (b) A circle upon an equatorial telescope lying parallel to the plane of the earth's equator, and graduated in hours and subdivisions of hours of right ascension. (c) A small brass circle attached to the north pole of an artificial globe, and divided into twenty-four parts or hours. It is used to mark differences of time in working problems on the globe.
  • Hour hand, the hand or index which shows the hour on a timepiece.
  • Hour line. (a) (Astron.) A line indicating the hour. (b) (Dialing) A line on which the shadow falls at a given hour; the intersection of an hour circle which the face of the dial.
  • Hour plate, the plate of a timepiece on which the hours are marked; the dial. --Locke.
  • Sidereal hour, the twenty-fourth part of a sidereal day.
  • Solar hour, the twenty-fourth part of a solar day.
  • The small hours, the early hours of the morning, as one o'clock, two o'clock, etc.
  • To keep good hours, to be regular in going to bed early. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Canonical hours'

From: GCIDE
  • canonic \ca*non"ic\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]k), canonical \ca*non"ic*al\ (k[.a]*n[o^]n"[i^]*kal), a. [L. canonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique. See canon.] Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to, a canon or canons. "The oath of canonical obedience." --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Appearing in a Biblical canon; as, a canonical book of the Christian New Testament. [PJC]
  • 3. Accepted as authoritative; recognized. [PJC]
  • 4. (Math.) In its standard form, usually also the simplest form; -- of an equation or coordinate. [PJC]
  • 5. (Linguistics) Reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality; as, a canonical syllable pattern. Opposite of nonstandard.
  • Syn: standard. [WordNet 1.5]
  • 6. Pertaining to or resembling a musical canon. [PJC]
  • Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, 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 (Math.), 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 (Anc. Church.), those for which capital punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. [1913 Webster]

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