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Definition of Canonization
1. Noun. (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints.
Generic synonyms: Sanctification
Category relationships: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church, Western Church, Eastern Church, Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Orthodox Church
Derivative terms: Canonise, Canonize
Definition of Canonization
1. n. The final process or decree (following beatifacation) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation.
Definition of Canonization
1. Noun. The final process or decree (following beatification) by which the name of a deceased person is placed in the catalogue (canon) of saints and commended to perpetual veneration and invocation. ¹
2. Noun. The state of being canonized or sainted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canonization
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonization
Literary usage of Canonization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"To sum up, beatification, in the present discipline, differs from canonization
in this: that the former implies (1) a locally restricted, not a universal, ..."
2. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The Pope would have liked above all to have lived to see the canonization of his
fellow- countryman, Antonino. ... For the canonization of Osanna ..."
3. The Life of Saint Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome, and Founder of the by Pietro Giacomo Bacci (1902)
"CHAPTER X OF THE Canonization OF PHILIP, AND OF THE STEPS TAKEN FOK THAT PURPOSE
IN order to give a clear account of the progress and order of the ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1833)
"So long as the right of according the honours of canonization was vested in ...
1866) states that " the proceedings of a beatification or canonization are ..."
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