Precanonical

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Prior to the development of a religious canon. not-comparable

    "There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions."

  2. 2
    In raw form, before conversion to a canonical form. not-comparable

    "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."

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"There was a Jesus-cult in precanonical times, when Abraham, Joseph, and Moses were demigods and had not been reduced to human dimensions."

Etymology

From pre- + canonical.

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