adv. [f. prec.] Not canonically or in a canonical manner.
1713. E. Calamy, Life Baxter (ed. 2), I. 508. He admits that the deposed Bishop was unjustly depriv’d and the New one Uncanonically promoted.
1774. J. Collyer, Hist. Eng., II. 150. He had been uncanonically elected.
1842. Wright, Biog. Brit., 174. He had been consecrated uncanonically by British bishops.
1865. Kingsley, Herew., i. Now, why were the two ecclesiastics so uncanonically kind to this wicked youth?
