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Bookseller
Bookseller Book"sell`er, n.
One who sells books.
Bookselling
Bookselling Book"sell`ing, n.
The employment of selling books.
BookshelfBookshelf Book"shelf`, n.; pl. Bookshelves.
A shelf to hold books. BookshelvesBookshelf Book"shelf`, n.; pl. Bookshelves.
A shelf to hold books. Bookstall
Bookstall Book"stall`, n.
A stall or stand where books are sold.
Bookstand
Bookstand Book"stand`, n.
1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a
bookstall.
2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
Canonical booksCanonic Ca*non"ic, Cannonical Can*non"ic*al, a. [L.
cannonicus, LL. canonicalis, fr. L. canon: cf. F. canonique.
See canon.]
Of or pertaining to a canon; established by, or according to
a, canon or canons. ``The oath of canonical obedience.'
--Hallam.
Canonical books, or Canonical Scriptures, those books
which are declared by the canons of the church to be of
divine inspiration; -- called collectively the canon. The
Roman Catholic Church holds as canonical several books
which Protestants reject as apocryphal.
Canonical epistles, an appellation given to the epistles
called also general or catholic. See Catholic epistles,
under Canholic.
Canonical form (Math.), the simples or most symmetrical
form to which all functions of the same class can be
reduced without lose of generality.
Canonical hours, certain stated times of the day, fixed by
ecclesiastical laws, and appropriated to the offices of
prayer and devotion; also, certain portions of the
Breviary, to be used at stated hours of the day. In
England, this name is also given to the hours from 8 a. m.
to 3 p. m. (formerly 8 a. m. to 12 m.) before and after
which marriage can not be legally performed in any parish
church.
Canonical letters, letters of several kinds, formerly given
by a bishop to traveling clergymen or laymen, to show that
they were entitled to receive the communion, and to
distinguish them from heretics.
Canonical life, the method or rule of living prescribed by
the ancient clergy who lived in community; a course of
living prescribed for the clergy, less rigid than the
monastic, and more restrained that the secular.
Canonical obedience, submission to the canons of a church,
especially the submission of the inferior clergy to their
bishops, and of other religious orders to their superiors.
Canonical punishments, such as the church may inflict, as
excommunication, degradation, penance, etc.
Canonical sins (Anc. Church.), those for which capital
punishment or public penance decreed by the canon was
inflicted, as idolatry, murder, adultery, heresy. Sibylline booksSibylline Sib"yl*line, a. [L. sibyllinus.]
Pertaining to the sibyls; uttered, written, or composed by
sibyls; like the productions of sibyls.
Sibylline books.
(a) (Rom. Antiq.) Books or documents of prophecies in verse
concerning the fate of the Roman empire, said to have
been purchased by Tarquin the Proud from a sibyl.
(b) Certain Jewish and early Christian writings purporting to
have been prophetic and of sibylline origin. They date
from 100 b. c. to a. d. 500.
Meaning of Books from wikipedia
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recording information in the form of
printed writing or images.
Modern books are
typically in
codex format,
composed of many
pages bound together and...
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Penguin Books Limited is a German-owned
English publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by
Allen Lane with his
brothers Richard and John, as a line...
- Let
Books Be
Books was
founded in
March 2014 as a
campaign to
persuade publishers of children's
books to stop
labelling and
promoting books as 'for boys'...
- The
Books were an American-Dutch duo,
formed in New York City in 1999,
consisting of
guitarist and
vocalist Nick
Zammuto and
cellist Paul de Jong. Their...
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Google Books (previously
known as
Google Book Search,
Google Print, and by its code-name
Project Ocean) is a
service from
Google that
searches the full...
- The
Poetic Books, also
called the
Sapiential Books, are a
division of the
Christian Bible grouping 5 or 7
books (depending on the canon) in the Old Testament...
- This page
provides lists of best-selling
books and book
series to date and in any language. "Best-selling"
refers to the
estimated number of
copies sold...
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deuterocanonical books,
meaning 'of,
pertaining to, or
constituting a
second canon',
collectively known as the
Deuterocanon (DC), are
certain books and p****ages...
- The
Expanded Books Project was a
project by The
Voyager Company during 1991, that
investigated how a book
could be
presented on a
computer screen in a...
- Gardners’ is an
international wholesalers of
books, e
Books,
music and film. They work with multi-channel
retailers worldwide, both
online and on the high...
