Canonist

Definitions: Canonist

Canonist

Adjective

1. Pertaining to or characteristic of a body of rules and principles accepted as axiomatic; e.g. "canonist communism".

Noun

1. A specialist in canon law.

Etymology: Canonist \Can"on*ist\, noun. [Compare to the French expression canoniste.]. (Websters 1913)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Orthodoxy	The Church; Catholic Church, Universal Church, Apostolic Church, Established Church; temple of the Holy Ghost; Church of Christ, body of Christ, members of Christ, disciples of Christ, followers of Christ; Christian, Christian community; true believer; canonist; (theologian); Christendom, collective body of Christians.
Theology	Theologue, theologian; scholastic, divine, schoolman, canonist, theologist; the Fathers.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Canonist

English words defined with "canonist": Canonistic. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Conferences of Riyad, Paris, Vatican City, Geneva, and Strasbourg on Moslem doctrine and human rights in Islam, between Saudi canonist and eminent European jurists and intellectuals (reference) Medieval law teachers and writers, civilian and canonist (reference) Philip of Leyden: A Fourteenth Century Canonist (Rechtshistorische Studies: No. 5) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Canonist" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Canonist" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	7	133,076

Language		Translations for "canonist"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		specialist në ligjin e kishës. (various references)

Bulgarian		специалист по каноническо право. (various references)

Hungarian		kánonjogász. (various references)

Manx		canoanee. (various references)

Pig Latin		anonistcay

Portuguese		canonista. (various references)

Russian		канонист. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		kanonista. (various references)

Swedish		expert i kanonisk lag. (various references)

Turkish		kilise hukukçusu. (various references)

Vietnamese		người thông hiểu quy tắc giáo hội. (various references)

Welsh		canonwr (canon). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "canonist": canonists. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Canonist" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cagnoni, caninity, cannst, canoist, canonise, canontist, cantonite, Caonis, Janonis. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "canonist" (pronounced 'Can"on*ist'): Abacist, Abaist, Abiogenist, Abolitionist, Abortionist, Absist, Abstractionist, Academist, Accompanist, Accordionist, Acephalist, Acolothist, Acolythist, Acosmist, Acquist, Actualist, Adeptist, Adiaphorist, Adonist, Adoptionist, Adventist, Aerologist, Aeroplanist, Affectationist, Agamist, Agist, Agonist, Agrammatist, Agricolist, Agriculturalist, Agriculturist, Agriologist, Agronomist, Agrostologist, Aladinist, Alarmist, Alchemist, Alcoranist, Algebraist, Algologist, Alienist, Alkoranist, Allegorist, Allodialist, Allopathist, Alopecist, Alpinist, Altarist, Altruist, Ambitionist, Amethodist, Amnicolist, Amorist, Anabaptist, Anagrammatist, Analogist, Anarchist, Anatomist, Anecdotist, Animalculist, Animist, Annalist, Annexationist, Annexionist, Annotationist, Annualist, Antarchist, Anthologist, Anthropologist, Anthropomorphist, Anthropotomist, Antichrist, Anti-federalist, Antiloquist, Antimonarchist, Antinomist, Antipathist, Antiquist, Antisocialist, Antitheist, Antivaccinist, Aorist, Apathist, Aphorist, Apiarist, Apiologist, Apocryphalist, Apologist, Apothegmatist, Appanagist, Aquarellist, Arabist, Arachnologist, Arboriculturist, Arborist, Archaeologist, Archaist, Archivist, Arcubalist, Areopagist, Arist, Armorist, Artillerist, Artist, Assientist, Associationist, Assyriologist, Atheist, Atmologist, Atomist, Augurist, Aurist, Autobiographist, Autoomist, Autotheist, Averroist, Bacteriologist, Balloonist, Baptist, Barrowist, Bassoonist, Battologist, Belle-lettrist, Bemist, Biblicist, Bibliopegist, Bibliophilist, Bibliopolist, Biblist, Bicyclist, Bigamist, Bilinguist, Bimetallist, Biogenist, Biologist, Blacklist, Boist, Bonapartist, Boodhist, Botanist, Bourbonist, Bromatologist, Bronzist, Bryologist, Bullionist, Bullist, Bureaucratist, Burinist, Cabalist, Calamist, Calligraphist, Calvinist, Cambist, Campanologist, Canoeist, Capitalist, Caricaturist, Carlist, Carnalist, Carpologist, Cartist, Cartoonist, Carvist, Casualist, Catabaptist, Cataclysmist, Catastrophist, Catechist, Catechumenist, Categorist, Catharist, Causationist, Celibatist, Cellarist, Cerebralist, Cerographist, Cetologist, Charterist, Chartist, Chemist, Chiaroscurist, Chirographist, Chirologist, Chiropodist, Chirosophist, Choralist, Chorist, Christ, Chronogrammatist, Ciderist, Cinquecentist, Cist, Civilist, Classicalist, Classicist, Climatologist, Clubbist, Clubfist, Coalitionist, Codist, Coexist, Coleopterist, Collectivist, Colloquist, Collybist, Colonist, Colonizationist, Colorist, Communalist, Communist, Computist, Comtist, Conceptionalist, Conceptualist, Concessionist, Conchologist, Conclavist, Concordist, Confessionalist, Confessionist, Conformist, Confucianist, Congregationalist, Conjecturalist, Consist, Constitutionalist, Constitutionist, Constructionist, Consubstantialist, Contagionist, Contemplatist, Contertionist, Contrabandist, Contrapuntist, Contrist, Controversialist, Controvertist, Conventionalist, Conventionist, Conversationalist, Conversationist, Convivialist, Convocationist, Convulsionist, Copist, Copyist, Co-religionist, Cornist, Corporealist, Correligionist, Corruptionist, Cosmogonist, Cosmologist, Councilist, Craniologist, Cranioscopist, Cremationist, Criminalist, Crustaceologist, Crustalogist, Cryptogamist, Cryptographist, Culturist, Cumulatist, Curialist, Cyclist, Cyclopedist, Cymbalist, Dactylist, Damianist, Decadist, Decalogist, Decembrist, Decretist, Defectionist, Degenerationist, Deipnosophist, Deist, Democratist, Demolitionist, Demonist, Demonologist, Demonomist, Dendrologist, Denominationalist, Dentiloquist, Dentist, Deontologist, Dermatologist, Desist, Despotist, Destinist, Destructionist, Determinist, Deuterogamist, Deuteronomist, Dialist, Dialogist, Diarist, Diatribist, Dichotomist, Dietetist, Digamist, Diluvialist, Diplomatist, Discursist, Dissertationist, Distributionist, Disunionist, Ditheist, Diurnalist, Dogmatist, Donatist, Dramatist, Dramaturgist, Drollist, Druggist, Dualist, Duelist, Dynamist, Ebonist, Ecclesiologist, Economist, Educationist, Egoist, Egotist, Electro-biologist, Elegist, Elocutionist, Elogist, Elohist, Emancipationist, Emancipist, Emblematist, Embryologist, Emigrationist, Empiricist, Encyclopedist, Enigmatist, Enmist, Entomologist, Entomotomist, Entozoologist, Ephemerist, Epidemiologist, Epigenesist, Epigrammatist, Epigrammist, Epigraphist, Epitaphist, Epitomist, Eponymist, Equilibrist, Erpetologist, Errorist, Essayist, Etacist, Eternalist, Ethicist, Ethnologist, Ethologist, Etymologist, Eucharist, Euhemerist, Eulogist, Euphuist, Evangelist, Evolutionist, Exclusionist, Exclusivist, Excursionist, Exegetist, Exist, Exorcist, Expeditionist, Experientiallist, Experimentist, Experimetalist, Expiatist, Extensionist, Extremist, Fabulist, Factionist, Fallowist, Familist, Famulist, Fashionist, Fatalist, Fatiloquist, Faunist, Federalist, Femalist, feudalist, Feudist, Feuilltonist, Fictionist, Figurist, finalist, Financialist, flautist. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: actinons, contains, sanction, sonantic.
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-n-n-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: actinon, actions, anoints, atonics, cantons, cations, contain, incants, nations, onanist, stannic.
	-2 letters: actins, action, anions, anoint, antics, atonic, cannot, canons, canton, cantos, casino, cation, coatis, conins, cotans, incant, nasion, nastic, nation, nitons, octans, scotia, sonant, tannic, tocsin, tonics.
	-3 letters: actin, ancon, anion, antic, antis, ascot, cains, canon, canso, canst, canto, cants, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, conin, conns, costa, cotan, icons, iotas, niton, nonas, octan, ontic, ostia, saint, santo, satin, scant, scion, sonic, stain, stoai, stoic, tacos, tains, tonic.
	-4 letters: acts, ains, aits, anis, anon, anti, ants, asci, cain, cans, cant, cast, cats, ciao, cion, cist, coat, coin, coni, conn, cons, cost, cots, icon, inns, into, ions, iota, nans, naoi, naos, nits, nona, nota, oast, oats, ocas, otic, sain, sati, scan, scat, scot, snit, snot, stoa, taco, tain, tans, taos, tics, tins, tons.
	-5 letters: act, ain, ais, ait, ani, ant, can, cat, cis, con, cos, cot, inn, ins, ion, its, nan, nit, nos, not, oat, oca, ons, sac, sat, sic, sin, sit, son, sot, tan, tao, tas, tic, tin, tis, ton.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-n-n-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: canonists, conations, constrain, countians, inactions, onanistic, sanctions, stanchion, transonic.
	+2 letters: anticodons, antiknocks, carnations, clintonias, cognations, confidants, constrains, constraint, contagions, containers, crenations, incautions, incognitas, inconstant, inoculants, insouciant, nicotianas, nonactions, nonaddicts, nonascetic, nonelastic, nonplastic, sanctimony, sanctioned, sonicating, sonication, stanchions, transsonic.
	+3 letters: accountings, adjunctions, ancestoring, calcitonins, cartoonings, catenations, codominants, concertinas, confidantes, conflations, consolation, constancies, constrained, constraints, continuants, contrarians, contrasting, coronations, cunctations, enunciators, fascination, incitations, inconsonant, inconstancy, incubations, indications, infarctions, infractions, intoxicants, invocations, nonartistic, nonascetics, noncabinets, noncapitals, nonmystical, nonplastics, nucleations, punctations, sanctioning, sonications, stanchioned, syncopating, syncopation, syndication, transaction, transection, truncations, wainscoting.
	+4 letters: actinomycins, anacreontics, annunciators, antagonistic, anthocyanins, anticonsumer, anticyclones, antinucleons, benefactions, calcinations, cancelations, canonicities, carbonations, cementations, centimorgans, colonisation, combinations, comminations, communicants, compensating, compensation, complainants, concomitants, condensation, conditionals, condonations, confiscating, confiscation, confutations, congelations, conjugations, conjunctivas, conjurations, connotations, consecrating, consecration, conservation, consignation, consociating, consociation, consolations, conspiration, constipating, constipation, constraining, consultation, consummating, consummation, containerise, containments, contaminants, contaminates, contestation, continentals, continuances, continuators, contractions, contraptions, contrariness, contrivances, conurbations, conversation, convocations, counterstain, crenelations, crenulations, criminations, culminations, cybernations, decantations, declinations, encrustation, enucleations, enunciations, fascinations, fecundations, fornications, fucoxanthins, incantations, incarnations, inchoateness, incinerators, inclinations, inconstantly, incrustation, inculcations, inculpations, incurvations, inoculations, inosculating, inosculation, insouciantly, interactions, intolerances, isoantigenic, laciniations, machinations, malfunctions, monosynaptic, nominalistic, nonaesthetic, noncustodial, nondiabetics, nonparasitic, nonrealistic, nonsectarian, nonsocialist, nonstrategic, onomastician, pectinations, pentazocines, phoneticians, plastocyanin, punctuations, recantations, recombinants, sanctimonies, sanctionable, somnifacient, syncopations, syndications, transactions, transduction, transections, transfection, transoceanic, unconstraint, unifications, unsanctioned, vaccinations, vindications, wainscotings, wainscotting.
	+5 letters: accentuations, accountancies, amniocenteses, amniocentesis, anachronistic, annunciations, anticipations, anticollision, anticolonials, anticommunism, anticommunist, anticonsumers, anticorrosion, antielectrons, antifrictions, antiobscenity, antirecession, antiromantics, cachinnations, calumniations, canalizations, cancellations, canonizations, cantillations, chlorinations, cogenerations, colonisations, colonizations, columniations, commendations, compensations, conciliations, concomitances, condemnations, condensations, confirmations, confiscations, conformations, conglobations, conglutinates, congregations, consanguinity, consecrations, consequential, conservations, consideration, consignations, consociations, consolidating, consolidation, conspirations, constellating, constellation, consternating, consternation, constipations, constrainedly, consultancies, consultations, consummations, containerised, containerises, containerizes, containerless, containership, contaminators, contestations, continuations, contrabandist, contrapuntist, conversations, coordinations, cotransducing, counterstains, crenellations, densification, denunciations, deracinations, diagnostician, disfunctional, dysfunctional, emancipations, encapsulation, encrustations, functionalism, functionalist, functionaries, inactivations, incinerations, inconsiderate, inconstancies, incontestable, incontestably, incrustations, indoctrinates, indomethacins, inosculations, inscriptional, instructional, intoxications, miscaptioning, miscegenation, narrowcasting, nationalistic, nazifications, necessitation, nicotinamides, nidifications, nonarchitects, nonassociated, noncandidates, noncapitalist, nonchauvinist, noncontagious, noneducations, nonhistorical, nonhysterical, nonresistance, nonsocialists, nonspecialist, nonsystematic, notifications, octogenarians, onomasticians, ornithischian, outdistancing, pancytopenias, pantechnicons, placentations, plastocyanins, renunciations, romanticising, sanctimonious, scintillation, shortchanging, signification, somnifacients, tenaciousness, transactional, transcription, transductions, transfections, translocating, translocation, unconstrained, unconstraints, undercoatings, unimportances, vacationlands, vaticinations, vinifications, vulcanisation, wainscottings.
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