canonical age


nounEcclesiastical.
  1. the age specified by canon law when a person becomes eligible to participate in a certain rite or hold a certain office.

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How to use canonical age in a sentence

  • Having reached the canonical age, he was elevated to the dignity of Patzin.

    The Life or Legend of Gaudama | Right Reverend Paul Ambroise Bigandet
  • For even when I knew her Madame had long passed the canonical age, and must now be verging on the three-score years and ten.

    Sweethearts at Home | S. R. Crockett