canonicals

/ (kəˈnɒnɪkəlz) /

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pl n

the vestments worn by clergy when officiating

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Words nearby canonicals

Canon City, canoness, canonical, canonical age, canonical hour, canonicals, canonicate, canonicity, Canonicus, canonist, canonization

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How to use canonicals in a sentence

Before I could determine what to do, a clergyman made his appearance in full canonicals from the vestry door, followed by a clerk.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes|Various
I trembled for the excellent man in full canonicals—I even trembled for the clerk.
Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes|Various
He was fond of lords and great ladies, and levees, and canonicals, and of having the verger to walk before him.
The Town|Leigh Hunt
Frequently the clergyman would be standing upon an old cask, arrayed in full canonicals, as a divine of the Church of England.
Redburn. His First Voyage|Herman Melville

The clergyman entered in his canonicals, and we walked in a little procession into another room, where the coffin was placed.
Passages From the English Notebooks, Volume 1|Nathaniel Hawthorne