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fubtleties and deceits, and fitted rather for parade and dif, 
putation than veal ufe, The (frefsof Epicurus’s Ganonica 
confifts in his doctrine of the criteria of truth. All quef- 
tions in philofophy are either concerning words or things: 
concerning things we feek their truth ; concerning words, 
their fignification : things are either natural or moral; and 
the former are either perceived by fenfe or by the under- 
ftanding. Hence, according to Epicurus, arife three cri- 
terionsof truth, viz. fenfe, anticipation or pre-notion, and 
pailiou. The great canon or principle of Epicurus’s logic 
is, that the fenfes are never deceived; and, therefore, that 
every fenfation or preception of an appearance is true. 
CANO'NICAL, adj. [ canonicvs , low Lat.] Something 
that belongs to, or partakes of, the nature of a rule or ca¬ 
non. Canonical hours , are certain (fated times of the day, 
conligned to the offices of prayer and devotion. In Eng¬ 
land the canonical hours are front eight to twelve in the 
forenoon, before or after which, marriage cannot be legal¬ 
ly performed in any parifin-church. Canonical obedience, is 
that fubmiifion which, by the eccleliaftical law, the infe¬ 
rior clergy are to pay to their bifhops, and religious to 
their (uperiors.—York anciently had a metropolitan jurif- 
didion over all the bifhops of Scotland, from whom they 
had their confecration, and to whom they fwore canonical 
obedience. Ayliffe. 
C ANO'NIC ALLY, adv. In a manner agreeable to the 
canon.—It is a known (lory of the friar, who, on a fading 
day, bid his capon be carp, and then very canonically ate 
it. Government of the Tongue. 
C ANO'NIC ALNESS, f. The quality of being canonical. 
CA'NONIST.y; A perfon who profeffes the (Indy and 
pradice of the canon law. Canoniits and civilians are u- 
fually combined in the fame perfons : and hence, the title 
of doBor juris utriufque , or legum doBor , which is ufually 
expreffed by LL. D. 
CANO'NIZATION, f. A ceremony in the Romifh 
church, by which pious perfons deceafed have been rank¬ 
ed in the catalogue of the faints. 
To CA'NONIZE, v. a. To declare any man a faint.— 
The king, defirous to bring into the houfe of Lancafier 
celeftial honour, became fuitor to pope Julius, to canonize 
king Henry VI. for a faint. Bacon. 
CANONNICUT', a fmall ifiand of North America, in 
Narraganfett Bay. 
CA'NONRY,y*. The benefice filled by a canon. It dif¬ 
fers from a prebend, in that the prebend may fubfift with¬ 
out the canonicate : whereas the canonicate is infeparable 
from the prebend : again, the rights of fuflfrages, and o- 
ther privileges, are annexed to the canonicate, and not to 
the prebend. 
CA'NOPIED, adj. Covered with a canopy ; 
1 fat me down to watch upon a bank. 
With ivy canopyd, and interwove 
With flaunting honey fttckle. Milton. 
CANO'PUS,/. in alfronomy, a bright (far of the firfl 
magnitude in the rudder of Argo, a conftellation of the 
ibuthern hemifphere. 
CANO'PUS, in fabulous hiffory, a god of the waters 
among the Egyptians, or at lead of the river Nile. He 
had been pilot, or rather admiral, of the fleet of Ofiris 
during his expedition into India. After his death he was 
faid to be changed into a (far, and placed among the gods. 
CANO'PUS, celebrated in the Trojan war, as the pilot 
of the (hip of Menelaus. He died in his youth on the coaft 
of Egypt, by the bite of a venomous reptile, and had a 
temple ereded to his memory. 
CANO'PUS, a city of Egypt, twelve miles from Alex¬ 
andria, celebrated for the temple of Serapis. It receives 
its name from Canopus the pilot of the veffel of Menelaus, 
who was buried in this place. The inhabitants were re¬ 
markable for the dilfolutenefs of their manners. Virgil 
beffows upon it the epithet of Pellaeus, becaufe Alexan¬ 
der, who was born at Pella, built Alexandria in the neigh¬ 
bourhood. 
CAN 
CA^NOPV,/ [from the low Eat. tanopem, of^py, 
mw, a net fpread over a bed to keep off the gnats; from 
KiwE, a gnat.] In architedure and fculpture, a magni¬ 
ficent decoration, ferving to cover and crown an altar, 
throne, tribunal, pulpit, chair, &c. The word is appli¬ 
ed to any kind of covering fpread over the head : 
Now fpread the night her fpangled canopy, 
And fummon’d every reftlefs eye to deep. Fairfax. 
To CA'NOPY, v. a. To cover with a canopy : 
The birch, the myrtle, and the bay, 
Like friends did all embrace; 
And their large branches did difplay 
To canopy the place. Dryden. 
CA'NOROUS, adj. [ canorus , Lat.] Mufical ; tuneful. 
•—Birds that are molt canorous, and whofe notes we mod; 
commend, are of little throats, and (Ik rt. Brown. 
CANORASAY', a fmall ifiand of Scotland, near the 
ealf coaft of the ifiand of Coll. 
CANO'S A, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Naples, 
and country of Bari, deftroyed by an earthquake in 169+. 
It was once epifcopal, but the fee lias been united to the 
archbifhopric of Bari. It was taken by the French in 1502, 
The ancient city flood in a plain between the hills and the 
river Ofanto, and, before its cataflrophe, covered a large 
tract of ground. Many biick monuments, though (trip¬ 
ped of their marble cafing, (till attefl its ancient gran¬ 
deur. Among them may be traced the fragments of aque¬ 
ducts, tombs, amphitheatre baths, military columns, and 
two triumphal arches, which, by their pofition, feemdo 
have been two city gates. The prefent town (lands above, 
on the foundations of the old citadel, and is but a fmall 
remnant of fo great a city, not containing above 300 houfes. 
The church of St. Sabinus, built, as is faid, in the lixtli 
century, is now without the inclofure. It is aftoniffiing, 
that any part of this ancient cathedral fiiould have .with- 
flood (o many calamities. It is thirty-one miles weft of Bari. 
CANO'SIO, a town of Piedmont, in the marquifate of 
Saluzzo : fifteen miles fouth-weft of Saluzzo. 
CANO'VIO, a town of European Turkey, in the pro¬ 
vince of Albania : twenty-two miles fouth of Dnrazzo. 
CANOUL', a town of Hindooflan, and capital of a dr¬ 
ear, in the country of Hydrabad : ninety-five miles fouth- 
fouth-weft of Hydrabad, and 124 eaft of Bifnagur. Lat. 
15. 50. N. Ion. 78. 7. E. Greenwich. 
CANOUR'GUE (La), a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Lozere. The inhabitants of which carry 
on confiderable trade in cattle and woollen fluffs: three 
leagues fouth'fouth-weft of Maurejols, and four and a half 
weff-fouth-weft of Mende. 
CANS'CHI,/ in botany. SeeTREwiA. 
CAN'SO (Gut of), a narrow (trait between the ifiand of 
Cape Breton and Nova Scotia, which forms the paffage 
from the Atlantic ocean into the gulf of St. Lawrence. 
CAN'SO, an ifiand, with a fea.port town of the fame 
name, near the north-eaft coaft of Nova Scotia. Lat. 
45. 32. N. ion. 60. 45. W. Greenwich. 
CAN'STEIN, a town and citadel of Germany, in the 
circle of the Lower Rhine, and duchy of Weftphalia : fix 
miles fouth-eaft of Stadtburg. 
CANS'WA, a river of Hindooflan, which runs into the 
fea, forty miles fouth-fouth-weft of Junagur, in the coun¬ 
try of Guzerat. 
CANT, /. [probably from cantus , Lat. implying the 
odd tone of voice ufed by vagrants ; but imagined by fome 
to be corrupted from quaint .] A corrupted dialed ufed 
by beggars and vagabonds ; a particular form of fpeak- 
ing, peculiar to fome certain clafs or body of men.—! write 
not always in the proper terms of navigation, land-fervice, 
or in the cant of any profeflion. Dryden.—A whining pre- 
tenfion to goodnefs, in formal and affeded terms : 
Of promife prodigal, while pow’r you want, 
And preaching in the felf-denying cant. Dryden, 
Barbarous jargon.—The affedation of fome late authors, 
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