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precanonical

precanonical adjective: prior to the development of a religious canon.

Adjective

precanonical (not comparable)

  1. Prior to the development of a religious canon.
    • There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions.1917, Granville Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology, volume 1, page 189
    Synonyms:
    precanon
  2. In raw form, before conversion to a canonical form.
    • We also argue that the normalizability of precanonical wave functions with respect to the scalar product, which involves an operator-valued invariant measure on the space of spin connection coefficients, leads to the quantum avoidance of curvature singularities.2015, I.V. Kanatchikov, “On the "Spin-Connection Foam" Picture of Quantum Gravity from Precanonical Quantization”, in arXiv

Synonyms of precanonical

Origin of precanonical

From pre- + canonical.

Questions about precanonical

What does precanonical mean?
Precanonical means prior to the development of a religious canon.
What part of speech is precanonical?
Precanonical is an adjective.

Words near precanonical in the dictionary

  1. precandidature
  2. precanine
  3. precanines
  4. precanning
  5. precanon
  6. precanonical
  7. precant
  8. precants
  9. precanyon
  10. precap
  11. precapillary

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