[f. on type of a L. *canonicitas, f. canonic-us, or ad. F. canonicité: see -ITY.] Canonicalness, canonical status, esp. the fact of being comprehended in the Canon of Scripture, or in any other sacred canon.
1797. Monthly Rev., XXIII. 485. To attribute canonicity to all those Scriptures of the Jews.
1841. Myers, Cath. Th., xix. 73. If none but a literal line and measure of Canonicity will be accepted.
1849. W. Fitzgerald, trans. Whitaker’s Disput., 46. Would Augustine, if he held all the books to have an equal right to canonicity … have preferred some to others?
