canonize
verb (used with object)
to place in the canon of saints.
had canonized
-
past perfectof canonize.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
In Savage’s view, forty-something rock critics had canonized a bygone notion of “indie” that was never all that relevant to him.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 9, 2017
After the address, Francis walked through the Capitol’s second floor to Statuary Hall and paused at the statue of Junípero Serra, the California missionary whom he had canonized on Wednesday.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2015
Yet within 28 years of her death, Pope Pius XI had canonized Therese, and her artless autobiography, The Story of a Soul, had blossomed into one of the world's best-selling books.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poverty was a gleaming thing; she could not conceive of poor people being vicious or nasty because their poverty had canonized them, and the greatest saints were the foreign poor.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It would seem, then, my lord," said Babbalanja, reclining, "as if these men of Ohonoo had canonized the derelictions of their progenitors, though the same traits are deemed scandalous among themselves.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville
