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canonize, v.|ˈkænənaɪz|
Also -ise.
[ad. med.L. canonizā-re (also in 15th c. Fr. canonizer).]
1. trans. To place in the canon or calendar of the saints, according to the rules and with the ceremonies observed by the Church.
c1380Wyclif De Eccles. Sel. Wks. III. 344 If þe pope canonise þis man þanne he must nedis be seint in hevene. 1460J. Capgrave Chron. (1858) 253 This same ȝere was Thomas of Lancastir canonized. 1516Pynson Life St. Birgitte in Myrr. Our Ladye (1873) Introd. 58 This blessyd woman seynt Birgette was canonyzed by pope bonyface. 1598R. Barckley Felic. Man (1631) 257 They assured him he should be canonized for a Saint. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 195 A Fanatic..canonizes himself a Saint in his own Life-time. 1875H. E. Manning Mission H. Ghost vii. 191 A multitude who have not been canonised on earth, though they are saints in heaven.
†2. To install in any ecclesiastical dignity or office; to consecrate. Obs.
1393Gower Conf. I. 254 Thus was he pope canonised With great honour and intronised. c1400Apol. Loll. 57 Wan any auerous or couetous is canonizid in þe kirk, or maad cheef.
†3. To deify, apotheosize. Obs. or arch.
1553Eden Treat. New Ind. (Arb.) 20 Of them which amonge the gentiles were canonized into y⊇ numbre of the goddes. 1564Haward Eutropius i. 2. 1601 Holland Pliny II. 210 Circe our famous witch..was canonized a goddesse. 1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. viii. 106. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. II, Adventurers who were afterwards..canonized as a sign in the heavens..called Argonauts.
4. fig. To treat as a saint or glorified person.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 683/1 But women are as it were canonized here: God putteth them into his register, and setteth them in an honourable degree. c1590Marlowe Faust. i. 118 Faustus, these books, thy wit, and our experience, Shall make all nations to canonize us. 1825Bro. Jonathan II. 282, I am not ready to canonize all women because I love one.
5. To make canonical; to admit into the Canon of Scripture, or (transf.) of authoritative writings.
1382[see canonized]. 1593Nashe Christ's T. 38 b, Canonizing such a multifarious Genealogie of Comments. 1595Polimanteia (1881) 36 To canonize your owne writers. 1645Ussher Body Div. 5. 1657 Cosin Canon Script. ii. 14 They canonized the Books of the Maccabees. 1872O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms 86 Apocryphal books..were not canonized.
6. To sanction by the authority of the church; to give authoritative sanction or approval to.
1393Gower Conf. III. 280 Of the law canonized The pope hath bode to the men, that, etc. c1400Apol. Loll. 46 Þer wordis are canonized, & approuid of holi kirk. 1635E. Pagitt Christianogr. i. iii. (1636) 89 These..doctrines are Canonized in their late meeting at Trent. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals ii. i. 132 The Popes are sure to have the Cardinals Canonize their errours. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. i 39 We should still be compelled to canonise a crowd of acts.
†7. (See quot.)
1578Cooper Thesaur., Canonize, to canonice: to examine by rule. 1656Blount Glossogr, Canonize, to examine by rule, to Register, to put in the rank and number. |