Canon, cánonis, pen. cor. Latinè re gula dicitur. Cic.A rule: a part in a tergate wherin the hand & arme is put: the tongue of a balance: the reuenues in fee fermes and customes: the custome in paying corne yearely.Canon artis. Plin. A chiese paragon or paterne, vnde legem artifices petunt. Canonibus soluere, pro dispensare dicendum est: quod & Gratiam canonis legisque facere dici potest. Budæus. To dispense with.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cănon, ŏnis, m. (acc. canona, Plin. 34, 8, 19, 55; acc. plur. canonas, Aus. Ep. 136; in Cic. Fam. 16, 17, 1, used as a Greek word), = kanw/n [ka/nna, ka/nh, a reed, cane]. I.A marking or measuring line; hence, a rule, canon, model (cf. Lidd. and Scott, under kanw/n).—II. Esp. A.A wooden channel in hydraulic instruments, Vitr. 10, 13 Rod.—B. Under the emperors, an annual tribute, established by law, in grain, gold, silver, clothing, etc., Spart. Sev. 8; Lampr. Elag. 27.—C. In eccl. Lat., a catalogue of sacred writings, as admitted by the rule, the Canon, Aug. Doctr. Christ. 2, 8; Hier. Prol. Gal. Aug. Civ. 17, 24; 18, 38; cf. Isid. Orig. 6, 15 and 16.—D. Also in late Lat., from their shape, in plur.: cănŏnes, um, cannon: et illic figere gunnas suas, quas Galli canones vocant, quibus validius villam infestare posset, Thom. Walsingham in Henry V. p. 398.