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English
Etymology
un- + canonical
Adjective
uncanonical (not comparable)
- Not canonical.
1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy: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.
2007 January 10, Holland Cotter, “At Yale, Renovation Puts Africa in Spotlight”, in New York Times: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.
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