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Definition of Canonize
1. Verb. Declare (a dead person) to be a saint. "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
Category relationships: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Generic synonyms: Adjudge, Declare, Hold
Derivative terms: Canon, Canonisation, Canon, Canonization, Saint
2. Verb. Treat as a sacred person. "He canonizes women"
Definition of Canonize
1. v. t. To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Definition of Canonize
1. Verb. To establish as a formal, standard rule. ¹
2. Verb. To define someone as a saint. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canonize
1. to declare to be a saint [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonize
Literary usage of Canonize
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daughters of Genius: A Series of Sketches of Authors, Artists, Reformers by James Parton (1885)
"T~y OME refuses to canonize the Maid of Orleans. ... It was no other than the
Church which so recently was asked to canonize her. ..."
2. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"Yet can any man doubt whether this church would authorize murder, or canonize
assassinates, for her own advantage ? Publicly suppose she would not; ..."
3. The Life of Saint Philip Neri, Apostle of Rome, and Founder of the by Pietro Giacomo Bacci (1902)
"His Holiness had some time previously determined to canonize the Blessed Isidore
Agricola, and now entreaties were made that he would canonize at the same ..."
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