canonise
- a variation of canonize.
Example Sentences
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That was the album that brought her into adulthood and helped canonise her as a pop star capable of unpacking love’s indescribable feelings and moments.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 25, 2019
Far more typical are the films that seek to canonise a former or sitting president.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 22, 2016
Pope Francis is to canonise two 19th Century nuns who lived in what was then Ottoman-ruled Palestine and were native Arabic speakers.
From BBC ● May 16, 2015
He retorted that the expense was not excessive: an initiative to canonise a Haitian-born New Yorker called Pierre Toussaint, already well advanced, had cost less than $4,000.
From Economist ● Jan. 23, 2014
The first action of Tiberius was to canonise his father, and Augustus was translated to the banquet of the Gods: Quos inter Augustus recumbens, Purpureo bibit ore nectar.
From The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola by Gordon, Thomas
