canon (n.)
- act
- album
- ana
- analects
- anthology
- antipope
- archbishop
- archdeacon
- archpriest
- assize
- axiom
- barometer
- bill
- bishop
- breviary
- bylaw
- cardinal
- catch
- chaplain
- check
- chrestomathy
- coadjutor
- code
- collection
- commandment
- compilation
- convention
- criterion
- curate
- dean
- decree
- degree
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- diocesan
- doctrine
- dogma
- edict
- enactment
- exarch
- florilegium
- flowers
- form
- formality
- formula
- formulary
- fugue
- garden
- garland
- gauge
- guideline
- hierarch
- imperative
- institution
- jus
- law
- legislation
- lex
- litany
- manual
- maxim
- measure
- metropolitan
- miscellanea
- miscellany
- missal
- mitzvah
- model
- moral
- norm
- norma
- omnibus
- ordinal
- ordinance
- papa
- parameter
- patriarch
- pattern
- penitentiary
- pontiff
- pontifical
- pope
- prebendary
- precept
- prelate
- prescript
- prescription
- primate
- principle
- quantity
- reading
- readout
- rector
- regulation
- ritual
- rondeau
- rondelet
- rondo
- round
- roundelay
- rubric
- rule
- ruling
- scale
- scrapbook
- standard
- statute
- suffragan
- symposium
- teaching
- tenet
- test
- touchstone
- troll
- type
- value
- vicar
- yardstick
O, that this too too solid flesh would melt,
Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!
Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God!
How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable
Seem to me all the uses of this world!
