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Canonical obedienceCanonic 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. Disobedience
Disobedience Dis`o*be"di*ence, n.
Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or
prohibition.
He is undutiful to him other actions, and lives in open
disobedience. --Tillotson.
Disobediency
Disobediency Dis`o*be"di*en*cy, n.
Disobedience.
DisobedientDisobedient Dis`o*be"di*ent, a. [Pref. dis- + obedient. See
Disobey, Obedient.]
1. Neglecting or refusing to obey; omitting to do what is
commanded, or doing what is prohibited; refractory; not
observant of duty or rules prescribed by authority; --
applied to persons and acts.
This disobedient spirit in the colonies. --Burke.
Disobedient unto the word of the Lord. --1 Kings
xiii. 26.
2. Not yielding.
Medicines used unnecessarily contribute to shorten
life, by sooner rendering peculiar parts of the
system disobedient to stimuli. --E. Darwin. Disobediently
Disobediently Dis`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
In a disobedient manner.
Expedience
Expedience Ex*pe"di*ence, Expediency Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or
suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to
self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; --
sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
--Cogan.
To determine concerning the expedience of action.
--Sharp.
Much declamation may be heard in the present day
against expediency, as if it were not the proper
object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were
only pursued by the unprincipled. --Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak.
Expediency
Expedience Ex*pe"di*ence, Expediency Ex*pe"di*en*cy,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or
suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to
self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; --
sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
--Cogan.
To determine concerning the expedience of action.
--Sharp.
Much declamation may be heard in the present day
against expediency, as if it were not the proper
object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were
only pursued by the unprincipled. --Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
Forwarding this dear expedience. --Shak.
Expedient
Expedient Ex*pe"di*ent, n.
1. That which serves to promote or advance; suitable means to
accomplish an end.
What sure expedient than shall Juno find, To calm
her fears and ease her boding mind? --Philips.
2. Means devised in an exigency; shift.
Syn: Shift; contrivance; resource; substitute.
ExpedientialExpediential Ex*pe`di*en"tial
Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential
policy. ``Calculating, expediential understanding.' --Hare.
-- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly, adv. ?. ExpedientiallyExpediential Ex*pe`di*en"tial
Governed by expediency; seeking advantage; as an expediential
policy. ``Calculating, expediential understanding.' --Hare.
-- Ex*pe`di*en"tial*ly, adv. ?. Expediently
Expediently Ex*pe"di*ent*lyadv.
1. In an expedient manner; fitly; suitably; conveniently.
2. With expedition; quickly. [Obs.]
Inexpedience
Inexpedience In`ex*pe"di*ence, Inexpediency
In`ex*pe"di*en*cy, n.
The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness;
unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the
inexpedience of some measures.
It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and
acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley.
Inexpediency
Inexpedience In`ex*pe"di*ence, Inexpediency
In`ex*pe"di*en*cy, n.
The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness;
unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the
inexpedience of some measures.
It is not the rigor but the inexpediency of laws and
acts of authority which makes them tyrannical. --Paley.
Inexpedient
Inexpedient In`ex*pe"di*ent, a.
Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending
to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable
to time and place; as, what is expedient at one time may be
inexpedient at another.
If it was not unlawful, yet it was highly inexpedient
to use those ceremonies. --Bp. Burnet.
Syn: Unwise; impolitic; imprudent; indiscreet; unprofitable;
inadvisable; disadvantageous.
Inexpediently
Inexpediently In`ex*pe"di*ent*ly, adv.
Not expediently; unfitly.
IngredienceIngredience In*gre"di*ence, Ingrediency In*gre"di*en*cy, n.
[See Ingredient.]
1. Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
2. The quality or state of being an ingredient or component
part. --Boyle. IngrediencyIngredience In*gre"di*ence, Ingrediency In*gre"di*en*cy, n.
[See Ingredient.]
1. Entrance; ingress. [Obs.] --Sir M. Hale.
2. The quality or state of being an ingredient or component
part. --Boyle. Ingredient
Ingredient In*gre"di*ent, a.
Entering as, or forming, an ingredient or component part.
Acts where no sin is ingredient. --Jer. Taylor.
Inobedience
Inobedience In`o*be"di*ence, n. [L. inoboedientia : cf.F.
inobedience.]
Disobedience. [Obs.] --Wyclif. Chaucer.
InobedientInobedient In`o*be"di*ent, a. [L. inoboediens, p. pr. of
inoboedire : cf.F. inobedient. See Obedient.]
Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.] InobedientlyInobedient In`o*be"di*ent, a. [L. inoboediens, p. pr. of
inoboedire : cf.F. inobedient. See Obedient.]
Not obedient; disobedient. [Obs.] --Chaucer. --
In`o*be"di*ent*ly, adv. [Obs.] Misobedience
Misobedience Mis`o*be"di*ence, n.
Mistaken obedience; disobedience. [Obs.] --Milton.
Nonobedience
Nonobedience Non`o*be"di*ence, n.
Neglect of obedience; failure to obey.
obediencePriory Pri"o*ry, n.; pl. Priories. [Cf. LL. prioria. See
Prior, n.]
A religious house presided over by a prior or prioress; --
sometimes an offshoot of, an subordinate to, an abbey, and
called also cell, and obedience. See Cell, 2.
Note: Of such houses there were two sorts: one where the
prior was chosen by the inmates, and governed as
independently as an abbot in an abbey; the other where
the priory was subordinate to an abbey, and the prior
was placed or displaced at the will of the abbot.
Alien priory, a small religious house dependent on a large
monastery in some other country.
Syn: See Cloister. Obedienciary
Obedienciary O*be`di*en"ci*a*ry, n.
One yielding obedience. [Obs.] --Foxe.
Obediently
Obediently O*be"di*ent*ly, adv.
In an obedient manner; with obedience.
Passive obediencePassive Pas"sive, a. [L. passivus: cf. F. passif. See
Passion.]
1. Not active, but acted upon; suffering or receiving
impressions or influences; as, they were passive
spectators, not actors in the scene.
The passive air Upbore their nimble tread. --Milton.
The mind is wholly passive in the reception of all
its simple ideas. --Locke.
2. Receiving or enduring without either active sympathy or
active resistance; without emotion or excitement; patient;
not opposing; unresisting; as, passive obedience; passive
submission.
The best virtue, passive fortitude. --Massinger.
3. (Chem.) Inactive; inert; not showing strong affinity; as,
red phosphorus is comparatively passive.
4. (Med.) Designating certain morbid conditions, as
hemorrhage or dropsy, characterized by relaxation of the
vessels and tissues, with deficient vitality and lack of
reaction in the affected tissues.
Passive congestion (Med.), congestion due to obstruction to
the return of the blood from the affected part.
Passive iron (Chem.), iron which has been subjected to the
action of heat, of strong nitric acid, chlorine, etc. It
is then not easily acted upon by acids.
Passive movement (Med.), a movement of a part, in order to
exercise it, made without the assistance of the muscles
which ordinarily move the part.
Passive obedience (as used by writers on government),
obedience or submission of the subject or citizen as a
duty in all cases to the existing government.
Passive prayer, among mystic divines, a suspension of the
activity of the soul or intellectual faculties, the soul
remaining quiet, and yielding only to the impulses of
grace.
Passive verb, or Passive voice (Gram.), a verb, or form
of a verb, which expresses the effect of the action of
some agent; as, in Latin, doceor, I am taught; in English,
she is loved; the picture is admired by all; he is
assailed by slander.
Syn: Inactive; inert; quiescent; unresisting; unopposing;
suffering; enduring; submissive; patient. Redient
Redient Re"di*ent (r?"d?-ent), a. [L. rediens, p. pr. of
redire to return; pref. red- + ire to go.]
Returning. [R.]
Regredience
Regredience Re*gre"di*ence (r?*gr?"d?-ens), n.
A going back; a retrogression; a return. [R.] --Herrick.
Unexpedient
Unexpedient Un`ex*pe"di*ent, a.
Inexpedient. [Obs.]
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