Meaning of canonical | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The formal robes of a priest.
   plural, plural-only
2. A URL presented in canonical form.
   Internet

Equivalents

Examples

“He, good man, could make but little of his solitary friend, and must many a time have been startled out of his canonicals by the strange, alien speeches which he heard.”

“Mr Altham rose, as in duty bound, in honour to a priest, and a priest who, as he dimly discerned by his canonicals, was not altogether a common one.”

“When I was a boy I was a passionate atheist, I defied God, and so far as God is the mere sanction of social traditions and pressures, a mere dressing up of the crowd's will in canonicals, I do still deny him and repudiate him.”

“Google advises canonicals as one of the preferred methods of treating duplicate content in your CMS.”

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