canonicals

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