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Definition of Canonising
1. canonise [v] - See also: canonise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonising
Literary usage of Canonising
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent by Mr Nicholson, John Aikin, William Enfield, Thomas Morgan, William Johnston (1799)
"Bayle. Nouv. "Diet. Hist.—E. obtained a pension as engineer. To her, under the
canonising title of Diva ..."
2. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"This canonising of the apocryphal ... the most material parts of the decree of
the council of Trent for the canonising of the uninspired apocryphal books. ..."
3. An Introduction to the New Testament by Adolf Jülicher (1904)
"... but they attained the same rank as the Old Testament, not for being Apostolic,
but as Gospels, and it was not till later that the canonising of ..."
4. The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith by William Tyndale, John Frith, Thomas Russell (1831)
"I may be as sure by the canonising, as I am that all the bishops which ...
And also if the miracles certify us, what needeth to buy the pope's canonising ? ..."
5. The History of the Higher Criticism of the New Testament: Being the History by Henry Sylvester Nash (1900)
"The process of canonising and the process of criticising the Scriptures have
mental and spiritual qualities in common.1 Through the former, ..."
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