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Definition of Canonise
1. Verb. Treat as a sacred person. "He canonizes women"
2. Verb. Declare (a dead person) to be a saint. "After he was shown to have performed a miracle, the priest was canonized"
Category relationships: Faith, Organized Religion, Religion
Generic synonyms: Adjudge, Declare, Hold
Derivative terms: Canon, Canonisation, Canon, Canonization, Saint
Definition of Canonise
1. Verb. (British spelling) (alternative spelling of canonize) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Canonise
1. to canonize [v -ISED, -ISING, -ISES] - See also: canonize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Canonise
Literary usage of Canonise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1876)
"Socrates having decided this to be ' the ecclesiastical Canon ' to which Julius
refers, paraphrased it accordingly ; meaning by ' canonise,' not that they ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1872)
"OFr. cane, a ship ; canot, a small boat.— Diez. Canon.—To canonise. ... To canonise,
to put upon the tried list of saints. Again we have Lat. canónicas, ..."
3. John Wiclif and His English Precursors by Gotthard Victor Lechler (1878)
"... where canonisation had been positively refused by the Curia, as the converse
case of a design on the part of Rome to canonise a churchman being upset by ..."
4. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood by Charles William Wood (1894)
"The Church consented to her death, and can never canonise one whose martyrdom it
helped to ... "Then why does not the Church in gratitude canonise her ? ..."
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