Can on bit

That part of a horse's bit that enters the mouth. Cañ'on City, in Colorado a gold-mining village, cap. of Fremont co., on the Arkansas River, 100 m. S. by W. of Denver. Cañon City, in Nevada, a village of Lander co., near Reese River, 180 m. E. of Carson City, and 12 m. S. of Austin. Cañon City, in Oregon, a village of Umatilla co., on the Middle Fork of John Day River, 190 m. S.E. of the Dalles. Can'one , n . ( Eccl . Hist .) One of a cla of religious women in France and Germany. Their convents were termed colleges. They did not live in seclusion. The College of Remiremont was the oldest establishment of this order in France. Similar noble monasteries still exist in Germany, and the revenues and dignities of some belong to Protestants. magne, and the decrees of the popes from Siricius to Cano'rousne , n. Quality or state o. deing mast An as tas i us IV. (385-1184), formed the chief part of the C. cal or melodious. down to the 12th cent. In 1114, Ivo, Bishop of Chart res, collected the decrees made by the popes and cardinals, and this work was completed by Gratian, a Benedictine monk, and published in 1140. Raimundus Barcimus, chaplain to Gregory IX., published in 1234 the decretals, which were rescripts or letters of the popes, in answer to questions on ecclesiastical matters submitted to them. The work consisted of 5 books, to which Boniface VIII. added a sixth in 1298. Clement V. added what were called the Clementines in 1308. John Andreas added a commentary called the Novellæ in the 14th cent., and John XXI. or XXII. the Extra vag ans in 1317. To these have been since added some decrees by later popes, and the whole form what is now known as the Corpus Juris Canonic i, or the great body of the canon law received by the Roman Catholic Church. Cano'sa, (anc. Canusium ,) a town of S. Italy, prov. Bari, cap. cant., near the Of an to, 15 m. S.W. of Barletta. The old city, said to have been founded by Diomed, or in a period antecedent to the records of Roman history, was in ancient times one of the most considerable cities in this part of Italy for extent, population, and magnifi- cence. It reached the acmé of its prosperity under Tra- jan. It was reduced to its present condition by a series of disasters inflicted on it by the Goths, Saracens, and Normans. Pop . 14,601. Can'on-lawyer, n. One skilled in the canon law. Can'on of Scripture. ( Eccl . Hist .) The term canon, as applied to the Scriptural writings, has been taken with various significations. At one time it expre ed simply a catalogue of church belongings; at another, it was interpreted to denote an authorized specification of all holy books, appointed to be publicly read. Later, it was narrowed in its application to those inspired writ- Old Testament was the work of many years. The ear- liest record of the collection dates from 130 в. c., and is quoted by Joseph us; and the Jews, it would appear, rе- garded it with especial veneration. The Alexandrine version was more particularly held as inspired writings by the Jews of Greece, rather than by the Palestine He- brews. This version differed from the former in being supplemented by the 14 books of the Apocrypha , which were not judged to be of prophetic origin, however, but merely as forming an appendix of peculiarly valuable moral and religious precepts. The early Christians first accepted the Greek version in its entire extent as canon- ical; but later, when the Hebrew language came to be understood, this judgment was, to a certain degree, re- versed. The canons of the Greek Church closely re- semble each other. Those of Melito (A. D. 177), Nazian- zen (A. D. 370), and of A mph i loch i us (A. D. 370), coincide with one another in containing all the Jewish books ex- cept Esther, but excluding the Apocrypha. Origen, Cy- ril (348), and the Council of Laodicea (363), agree in in- cluding all the Hebrew books, and that of Baruch . Atha- nasius again adopts Baruch , and excludes Esther . The Roman Catholic Church, following the example of the Latins, regarded the Jewish opinion of the Apocrypha as erroneous, and declared them canonical by a decree of the Council of Trent. At the period of the Reform a- tion, the theologians of the school of Luther repudiated the acceptation of the Apocryphal writings, and adopted the Jewish view of them. The C. of the New Testa- ment was founded upon, in a great degree, the ruling principles of the Old, and became gradually accepted as inspired writings to a partial extent. Origen held that the four Gospels, Acts, 12 Epistles of Paul, 1 Peter, 1 John, and perhaps, also, the Apocalypse, were undoubt- edly sacred and genuine. The C. of the Greek Church agree in accepting all the books of the New Testament excepting the Apocalypse. The Council of Hippo (A. D. 393) ordained that the New Testament should consist of the 4 Gospels, Acts, 13 Epistles of Paul, 1 to the He brews, 2 of Peter, 3 of John, 1 of James, 1 of Jude, and the Apocalypse of John. The Council of Carthage (397) confirmed this decree, but ranked Hebrews among Paul's 14 Epistles. Pope Innocent I. afterwards decided that the C. of the Latin Church should include the above catalogue. Luther, still later, excluded Hebrews, James, Jude, and the Apocalypse. The Council of Trent (1545), in confirming the C. of Hippo and Carthage, established them by œcumenical authority. The Greek Church thereupon followed, and gave canonical effect to the Apocrypha, the Catholic Epistles, and the Apocalypse. The Socinians and Swedenborgians have since taken other views, but, generally speaking, the three Churches, Catholic, Greek, and Protestant, have received as canon- ical the entirety of the Holy Scriptures. Can'onry, Can'onship, n. The office of a canon; an ecclesiastical benefice in a cathedral or collegiate church. Can'onsburg, in Pennsylvania , a borough of Wash- ington co., 18 m. S.W. from Pittsburg. Canoo/chee, or Cano'chee, in Georgia , a post-office of Emanuel co. Canoʻpus. (Anc. Geog.) A city of Egypt, 12 m. from Alexandria. It received its name, it is said, from Cano- pus, the pilot of the ve el of Menelaus, who was buried in this place. Some affirm that the modern Aboukir stands on its site. ( Myth .) An Egyptian god of the water, represented under the form of a vase, surmounted with a man's or animal's head. Canopy, ( kan'ō -pi,) п. [Fr. canapé; Gr. kõnõpeion, from kõnõps , a gnat or mosquito.] An ornamental cov- ering over a seat of state, and in its extended sign if i- cation, anything which affords protection from above; as, a covering over a bed, a mosquito screen, a covering over the head, . In this sense it is also used in arch i- tecture, to denote a decorated covering over a throne, altar, pulpit; the head of a niche or tomb, . Can'on Law, n. ( Eccl . Hist .) A collection of ecclesiast i- cal constitutions, decisions, and rules, instituted for the government and regulation of the Rom. Catholic Church although many of the ordinances have been admitted into the ecclesiastical system of the Anglican Church, -v. a. and still influence other Protestant bodies. It consists principally of ordinances of provincial and general conn- cils, and the decretal epistles and bulls of the Holy See. The Codex Canonum, with the Capitularies of Charle- "Now spread the night her spangled canopy, And summoned every restle eye to sleep.' To cover with a canopy. Cano'rous, a . [Lat. can or us, from can or.) Musical; tuneful; melodious; as, "A canorous peal of laughter." Cano's ia, or Cano'sa, in Minn ., a v. of St. Louis co. Canos'sa, a town of Central Italy, in the province of Modena, 11 m. S.W. of Reggio, with a castle in which the emperor Henry IV. performed penance before Pope Gregory VII., in 1077. Hence the expre ion, " going to Cano a." See HENRY IV. of Germany. Canou'an, in the West Indies, the central of the Grenadine islands. Cano'va, ANTONIO, a celebrated Italian sculptor, B. 1757, at the little village of Pa agno, in the Venetian territory. The seigneur of the village, having seen the figure of a lion modelled by Canova when only 12 years of age, placed him with Torretti, of Vienna, at that time the greatest living sculptor. At the close of his studies in Vienna he settled at Venice, and manifested the origi- nality of his powers by various works. From Venice he pa ed to Rome, where he was greatly patronized, and in a comparatively brief time was admired by all Eu- rope, and more or le employed by every European po- tentate. Fortune and honors flowed in upon him, and he used them wisely and honorably. Among his nu- merous works the finest are Cupid and Psyche, Venus and Adonis, Mary Magdalen , and Napoleon holding the Sceptre. To C. belongs the honor of having restored to sculpture the position which it had lost among the modern fine arts. After Michael Angelo Buonarotti, and Bernini, he was the third of epoch-making Italian sculptors. His delicate execution and masterly treat- ment of marble are unrivalled, and even his faults- viz., his exaggerated nicety and carefulne , and his use of corrosives to produce fine finish - served to attract by the novel effects which they produced. The e en- tial characteristic of all his works is sentiment - often verging, however, on sentimentalism, and this also. like his delicacy in details, was accordant with the taste prevalent in his time, and was the chief cause of his popularity. D. 1822. Canox'inite, n. ( Min .) A silicate of soda and alu- mina, with carbonate of lime, from the Miasget in the Ural. Three varieties are also found in the granite of Litchfield, Maine. Can quag a ( kan - kwah'ga ) Creek, in New York , a stream of Erie co., falling into Lake Erie 20 m. S.S.W. of Buffalo. ( Naut .) A piece of wood attached to a ship's deck for the support of a bulkhead. ( Arch .) A term used to expre the sides of a polygon turned from the spectator, on an angular deflection from a straight line which is neither in the same direction to the horizontal, nor to the perpendicular, line of the base.