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canonise
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vb. (context British spelling English) (alternative spelling of canonize English)
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Word definitions in WordNet
v. treat as a sacred person; "He canonizes women" [syn: canonize ] in the Catholic church; declare (a dead person) to be a saint; "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized" [syn: canonize , saint ] add in the canon or calendar ...
Usage examples of canonise.
An era which had canonised hypocrisy, so that to seem to be respectable was to be.
Allied Trades Centennial Jamboree, canonised for standing free drinks to a number of blind beggars on the Feast of Stephen.
Ford had spent most of his married life either quarrelling with or separated from his wife, but since death he had been canonised as 'poor dear Elmer.
On your left, for instance, Captain Acting Saint Gerald Harding, sometime Fellow of Clark's College, canonised for many charitable works, including obtaining a miserly millionaire's signature to a five-figure cheque for charity.
On the floor, Saint Norman Kent, champion beer-swiller at the last Licensed Victuallers' and Allied Trades Centennial Jamboree, canonised for standing free drinks to a number of blind beggars on the Feast of Stephen.
If he'd been a Catholic, they'd have tossed a coin to decide be-tween burning or canonising him.
In Rome, he might well have started his own religious movement within the Church and ended by being canonised.