adv. [f. prec. + -LY2.] In a canonical manner (see the adj.).

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1529.  More, Supplic. Soules, Wks. 296. Stephen was well and canonically chosen archbishop of Caunterbury.

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1609.  Bp. W. Barlow, Answ. Nameless Cath., 355. Then is he Sacrilegiously false, and Canonically irregular.

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1759.  H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 405. Marca was married yesterday … the lawyers and milliners were all ready canonically.

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1768.  Blackstone, Comm., I. 387. The vicar … shall be canonically instituted and inducted.

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1824.  Byron, Def. Transf., I. i. 293. Would you … be a Titan? Or (To talk canonically) wax a son Of Anak?

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1837.  Hawthorne, Twice-told T. (1857), I. v. An English priest, canonically dressed.

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1875.  Ouseley, Mus. Form, ix. 49. Treat the theme canonically, or with perpetual imitations.

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