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Bookseller
Bookseller Book"sell`er, n.
One who sells books.
Bookselling
Bookselling Book"sell`ing, n.
The employment of selling books.
BookshelfBookshelf Book"shelf`, n.; pl. Bookshelves.
A shelf to hold books. BookshelvesBookshelf Book"shelf`, n.; pl. Bookshelves.
A shelf to hold books. Bookstall
Bookstall Book"stall`, n.
A stall or stand where books are sold.
Bookstand
Bookstand Book"stand`, n.
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a
bookstall.
2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
Canonical booksCanonic Ca*non"ic, Cannonical Can*non"ic*al, a. [L.
cannonicus, 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.
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. Sibylline booksSibylline Sib"yl*line, a. [L. sibyllinus.]
Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by
sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
Sibylline books.
(a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse
concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have
been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl.
(b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to
have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date
from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.
Meaning of Books from wikipedia
- collector of books or a book lover is a bibliophile or colloquially, "bookworm". A shop where books are bought and sold is a bookshop or bookstore. Books are also...
- The Books were an American duo, formed in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their releases...
- different books in their biblical canons, in varying orders, and sometimes divide or combine books. Christian Bibles range from the 73 books of the Catholic...
- The history of books starts with the development of writing, and various other inventions such as paper and printing, and continues through to the modern...
- for publishing the Little Golden Books. Its Golden Books Family Entertainment division also produced children's books and family-related entertainment...
- OR Books is a New York-based independent publishing house founded by John Oakes and Colin Robinson in 2009. The company sells digital and print-on-demand...
- The Lost Books of the Bible and the Forgotten Books of Eden (1926) is a collection of 17th-century and 18th-century English translations of some Old Testament...
- Apple Books (previously known as iBooks until 2018) is an e-book reading and store application by Apple Inc. for its iOS and macOS operating systems and...
- The great books are books that constitute an essential foundation in the literature of Western culture. Specified sets of great books typically range...
- Amazon Books is a chain of retail bookstores owned by online retailer Amazon. The first store opened on November 2, 2015, in Seattle, Washington. As of...
