Regular canon


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(R. C. Ch.) one who lived in a conventual community and followed the rule of St. Austin; a Black canon.

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The result is a sophisticated and compelling argument that--regardless of the factual questions concerning a young Jew named Judas--the Opusculum was produced by the regular canons at the Premonstratensian abbey of Cappenberg for the internally oriented purpose of legitimizing the fledgling community (195).
The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century
Over the course of the next 100 years or so the Benedictines were joined by houses of regular canons, of Cistercian monks, and of nuns, so that by the 13th century, medieval Wales had a lively monastic community in which all the major religious orders were represented.
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