[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an ecclesiastical rule or law enacted by a council or other competent authority and, in the Roman Catholic Church, approved by the pope.", "the body of ecclesiastical law.", "the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a field of study or art:the neoclassical canon.", "a fundamental principle or general rule:the canons of good behavior.", "a standard; criterion :the canons of taste.", "the books of the Bible recognized by any Christian church as genuine and inspired.", "any officially recognized set of sacred books.", "any comprehensive list of books within a field.", "the works of an author that have been accepted as authentic:Compare apocrypha(def3) apocrypha(def3).There are 37 plays in the Shakespeare canon.", "established or agreed-upon constraints governing the background narrative, setting, storyline, characters, etc., in a particular fictional world:It’s accepted as canon that vampires are harmed by sunlight.", "a catalog or list, as of the saints acknowledged by the Church.", "Liturgy.the part of the Mass between the Sanctus and the Communion.", "Eastern Church.a liturgical sequence sung at matins, usually consisting of nine odes arranged in a fixed pattern.", "Music.consistent, note-for-note imitation of one melodic line by another, in which the second line starts after the first.", "Printing.a 48-point type."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["one of a body of dignitaries or prebendaries attached to a cathedral or a collegiate church; a member of the chapter of a cathedral or a collegiate church.", "Roman Catholic Church.one of the memberscanons regularof certain religious orders."]}]