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:
      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.

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