uncanonical

English

Etymology

un- +‎ canonical

Adjective

uncanonical (not comparable)

1. Not canonical.
   • 1620, Joseph Hall, The Honour of the Married Clergy:

     What I said in my epistle to my reverend friend and master, Doctor James, the incomparably industrious and learned bibliothecary of Oxford, I profess still; but I hold those canons of the apostles uncanonical.

   • 2007 January 10, Holland Cotter, “At Yale, Renovation Puts Africa in Spotlight”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He was also that rare thing, a connoisseur of the uncanonical hybrid in art, as demonstrated by the presence of a headdress mask of a water spirit from Sierra Leone.

Synonyms

• noncanonical

Derived terms

• uncanonically