What is "canonised"

Usage examples of "canonised".

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.