单词 | uncanonize |
释义 | uncanonizev. 1. transitive. To remove from the canon or calendar of saints. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > discanonization > perform discanonization [verb (transitive)] unsaint1572 discanonize1600 uncanonize1607 dissaint1612 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 348 A Monke..who was almost as soone vncanonized as canonized. 1651 J. Jane Εικων Ακλαστος 32 The Authors Pageantry playing with a picture is not the way to uncannonize a saint. 1751 G. Lavington Enthusiasm Methodists & Papists: Pt. III 276 He [sc. Boniface VIII] uncanonized St. Herman of Ferrara, and ordered his Bones to be dug up, and burned. 2. To reject from the canon of Scripture, or of authoritative writings. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > canon > [verb (transitive)] > exclude from discanon1603 discanonize1605 uncanonizea1706 society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [verb (transitive)] > reject from authoritative writings uncanonize1812 a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. vii. 409 And it is enough to read the two last verses of the second of Maccabees quite to uncanonize them. 1812 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 179 The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the Georgium sidus became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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