Semicanonical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Semicanonical is an adjective meaning Having a status approaching canonical.
Meaning
Having a status approaching canonical.
Example Sentences
Based on some of the vast semicanonical narrative literature, we may note Ksemendra's collection of avadanas (qv) because the author was not a Buddhist [...]
Accorded a semicanonical status similar to that of the works of Bhai Gurdas, Nand Lal's Persian compositions (trans. Bawa 2006) are much simpler than the elaborately mannered Persian poetry favoured in the courtly circles [...]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include multicanonical, canonical, half-identical, connatural, homosemic, quasicontractual.
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