enigmatic canon

1. 1.

   a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries)

   Synonymsenigma canonenigmatical canonriddle canon

   Broadercanon

Questions about enigmatic canon

What does enigmatic canon mean?

enigmatic canon means "a canon in which the entrances of successive parts were indicated by cryptic symbols and devices (popular in the 15th and 16th centuries)".

What is another word for enigmatic canon?

Close synonyms include enigma canon, enigmatical canon, riddle canon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enigmatic canon a common word?

enigmatic canon is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.