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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
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called books or
chapters or parts, are parts. The
intellectual content in a
physical book need not be a composition, nor even be
called a book.
Books can...
- The
Books were an American-Dutch duo,
formed in New York City in 1999,
consisting of
guitarist and
vocalist Nick
Zammuto and
cellist Paul de Jong. Their...
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Books of
Blood is a
series of six
horror fiction anthologies collecting original stories written by
British author, playwright, and
filmmaker Clive Barker...
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Penguin Books is a
British publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Sir
Allen Lane with his
brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers...
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Google Books (previously
known as
Google Book
Search and
Google Print and by its code-name
Project Ocean) is a
service from
Google Inc. that searches...
- Tor
Books is the
primary imprint of Tom
Doherty ****ociates, a
publishing company based in New York City. It
primarily publishes science fiction and fantasy...
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Apple Books (formerly i
Books,
between January 2010 to
September 2018) is an e-book
reading and
store application by
Apple Inc. for its iOS and
macOS operating...
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Vintage Books is a
trade paperback publishing imprint established in 1954 by
Alfred A. Knopf. The
company was
purchased by
Random House publishing in...
- Abe
Books is an e-commerce
global online marketplace with
seven websites that
offer books, fine art, and
collectables from
sellers in over 50 countries...
- two
books (1
Kings and 2 Kings) in the
Christian Old Testament. It
concludes the
Deuteronomistic history, a
history of
Israel also
including the
books of...
