canonize
verb (used with object)
to place in the canon of saints.
canonise
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a variation of
canonize.
Example Sentences
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Pope Francis arrives on Friday to celebrate the centenary of the apparitions and canonise the children.
From The Guardian ● May 12, 2017
That much is certain, despite the various attempts by the mainstream or, indeed, the academy, to claim or canonise him – and what is the Nobel prize except the latest attempt to do just that?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 15, 2016
"I think the Catholic Church would like to canonise a layman who is also an artist and a craftsman, an engineer and a kind of mystic in his prayer life."
From BBC ● May 10, 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
If we accept the former of the two remaining hypotheses, we can understand how love and gratitude, together with sorrow, led Hadrian to canonise Antinous.
From Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series by John Addington Symonds
