The Gospel of Luke is a canonical New Testament book.

In a word, they were made uſe of by the immediate ſucceſſors of the Apoſtles, and many of them read in the Public Aſſemblies of Chriſtians, as Canonical Scripture, without the leaſt mark of Diſtinction, in point of Autority[…]

The men played golf in the most canonical way, with no local rules.

the reduction of a linear substitution to its canonical form

{{quote-web|en|date=7-2-2011|author=Samson Abramsky|title=Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic|url=http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1313|text=It turns out that ordered pairs can be defined in set theory, e.g. as
(x,y):=x,y,y.
Note that in no sense is such a definition canonical.|coauthors=Nikos Tzevelekos|page=19}}

He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.

Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.

When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.

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