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▪ I. ˈcanonizing, vbl. n. [f. as prec. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. canonize; canonization: a. Admission into the calendar of saints.
c1380Wyclif Serm. xxix. Sel. Wks. III. 456 Þo canonysynge of þo seyntes. a1638Mede Apost. Latter Times iv. Wks. (1672) 629 The Canonizing of the Souls of deceased Worthies..was an Idolatrous trick even from the days of the elder world. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. II. li. 243 The Chinese are speedier in their canonizing than the Romans are. b. Establishing as canonical.
1651Hobbes Leviath. iii. xlii. 282 The Canonizing, or making of the Scripture Law, belonged to the Civill Soveraigne. ▪ II. ˈcanonizing, ppl. a. That canonizes.
1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xi. 30 The canonizing voice of England. |