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Canon law
Canon law (jus canonicum) is the Catholic Church's own legal system, from Gratian's Decretum (c. 1140) and the Corpus iuris canonici to the 1983 Code, its penal-law revision of 2021, and ongoing synodal amendments.
Canon of Laws
The Canon of Laws (法经) is a six-chapter penal code compiled by Li Kui, a minister of Weiguo, during the Warring States period, regarded as China's first comprehensive written code.
Canon of Supreme Mystery (Taixuan jing)
The Canon of Supreme Mystery (太玄经, Taixuan jing) is a divinatory and philosophical work by the Western Han scholar Yang Xiong, modeled on the Yijing with 81 shou.
Canonization
Canonization, also called becoming a saint, is the pope's formal declaration that a deceased person is a saint, the final step after beatification in the Catholic Church.
Canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati
The canonization of Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati took place on September 7, 2025. Acutis, a teen coder, and Frassati, a charity advocate, were declared saints.
Canonization of Stephen I of Hungary
The canonization of Stephen I of Hungary declared Hungary's first king a saint at Székesfehérvár on 20 August 1083, 45 years after his death, on King Ladislaus I's initiative.
Canonizations and beatifications by modern popes
Canonizations and beatifications by modern popes is a study of the process by which a pope formally recognizes a deceased Catholic as a Saint or Blessed.
Canopic jar
Canopic jars are ancient Egyptian vessels storing the mummified liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines under the Four Sons of Horus; used from Hetepheres's era, later replaced by dummy jars.
Cant
Cant: English word meaning insincere, pretentious talk and, historically, thieves' secret jargon (thieves' cant); also a separate word for a slant or tilt. From Latin cantare via Old French canter.
Canteen Stores Department (India)
Canteen Stores Department (India), CSD, is a Ministry of Defence department founded 1 January 1948, selling discounted goods to armed forces personnel and pensioners through 34 Area Depots and about 3,600 unit-run canteens.
Cantemir's revolt
Cantemir's revolt was the 1711 defection of Moldavia's ruler, Dimitrie Cantemir, from Ottoman rule to an anti-Ottoman alliance with Tsar Peter I of Russia, sealed during the Pruth campaign.
Canton Operation
The Canton Operation was an Imperial Japanese Army and Navy offensive in October 1938 that captured Guangzhou (Canton), severing a key overseas supply route to Chiang Kai-shek.
Canton System
The Canton System (一口通商, "single-port trade") was the Qing dynasty policy confining all Western trade to Canton from 1757 until the Treaty of Nanjing ended it in 1842.
Canton Tower (广州塔)
Canton Tower (广州塔), also called the Guangzhou TV & Sightseeing Tower and nicknamed "Slim Waist", is a 600-meter television and observation tower in Guangzhou, China, opened in 2010, China's tallest.
Cantonese
Cantonese (粤语, Yuèyǔ), the standard Yue variety of Chinese, spoken by roughly 86 million people in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hong Kong, Macau, and overseas; nine tones, checked -p/-t/-k endings, 30-50% vocabulary difference from Mandarin, not mutually intelligible with it.
Cantonese people (广东人)
Cantonese people (广东人, Guangdong ren) are the people of Guangdong province, narrowly the Yue-speaking Pearl River delta subgroup alongside Hakka and Teochew; about 84.9 million speak Cantonese, with large diasporas in Southeast Asia, North America, and Hong Kong.
Cantonese profanity
Cantonese profanity (粗口, cou1 hau2) is the taboo vocabulary of Cantonese, centered on five monosyllabic expletives (diu2, lan2, kau1, ceon1, hai1) with systematic infixing grammar, tone-based euphemisms, censorship history, and distinct Hong Kong register uses.
Cantonist
Cantonists (кантонисты) were soldiers' sons and, after 1827, Jewish boys conscripted as children into Nicholas I's Russian army and pressured to convert to Orthodox Christianity; about 75,000 were taken, the system ending in 1856–1857.
Cantonist decrees
The Cantonist decrees (Рекрутский устав 1827 года) were Tsar Nicholas I's 1827 statutes making military service compulsory for Jews in the Russian Empire, abolished in 1856.
Cantonment
Cantonment: a permanent military area with a civilian population, from French cantonnement (English 1756). In South Asia, a British-developed military part of town; India has 61 notified cantonments under the Cantonments Act 2006, governed by cantonment boards.
Cantons of France
Cantons of France: electoral constituencies within departments created by the law of 22 December 1789. Since the 2013 law each canton elects one woman and one man to the departmental council; 4,035 cantons were halved to 2,054 in 2015.
Cantor Fitzgerald
Cantor Fitzgerald is a private American financial services firm founded in 1945, centered on fixed-income brokerage and investment banking, and controlling the Nasdaq-listed affiliates BGC Group and Newmark Group.
Canuck
Canuck (also Canook, Canuk): informal nickname for a Canadian, especially historically a French Canadian. First printed 1835 as 'Kanuk'; likely from Hawaiian kanaka; shifted from slur to affectionate self-label, as in the Vancouver Canucks.
Canudos
Canudos, known to its inhabitants as Belo Monte, was a religious community founded in 1893 in Bahia, Brazil, by Antônio Conselheiro and destroyed by the army in 1897 in the War of Canudos.
Canvas Prime
Canvas Prime, formerly Canvas Ventures, is an early-stage venture capital firm in Portola Valley, California, co-founded by Rebecca Lynn in 2013 to back fintech and digital health companies.
Canvas Venture
Canvas Ventures (Canvas Venture Fund, L.P.) is a California early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2013 by former Morgenthaler Ventures partners, focused on fintech and digital health.
Canvas Ventures
Canvas Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm in Portola Valley, California, founded in 2013 as a spinoff of Morgenthaler, investing in fintech, digital health, marketplaces, and logistics.
Canvassing
Canvassing is door-to-door personal voter contact for identification, persuasion, and get-out-the-vote work. Field experiments since Gerber and Green's 1998 New Haven study show face-to-face contact raises turnout more reliably than mail, calls, or texts.
Canyon Independent School District
Canyon Independent School District (Canyon ISD) is a public school district in Canyon, Randall County, Texas Panhandle. It has 21 campuses and 11,590 students, holds a TEA "B" accountability rating, and serves southwest Amarillo.
Canyon Laurel
Canyon Laurel is a family of private investment funds through which Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC, the real estate arm of Los Angeles manager Canyon Partners, invests in US real estate debt.