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Canonicus

American  
[kuh-non-i-kuhs] / kəˈnɒn ɪ kəs /

noun

  1. c1565–1647, Narragansett leader: yielded Rhode Island to Roger Williams 1636.


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Do you remember the story of Canonicus and the snake skin, and that of Miles Standish and the chiefs?

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

The venerable Roger Williams, his friend, the friend of his father and the friend of the long-dead Canonicus, had advised him to stay out of the war.

From Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Canonicus once sent to Governor Bradford a bundle of arrows tied up in a rattlesnake's skin.

From Comic History of the United States by Opper, F.

A rhymed Latin account of a dispute in which the nuns of Ronceray at Angers were concerned, contained in a cartulary of Ronceray, is also ascribed to the poet, who there calls himself Hilarius Canonicus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

By February, 1621, after the defiance of Canonicus, the town was inclosed within a palisade, taking in the top of the hill under which it was situated.

From Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast by Drake, Samuel Adams

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