canonize

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To declare (a deceased person) as a saint, and enter them into the canon of saints.

   “Thomas Becket was canonized in 1173.”

2. fiil To regard as a saint; to glorify, to exalt to the highest honour.

   “She is a theame of honour and renowne, / A ſpurre to valiant and magnanimous deeds, / Whoſe preſent courage may beate downe our foes, / And fame in time to come canonize us, [...]”

3. fiil To formally declare (a piece of religious writing) to be part of the biblical canon.

   “Yet becauſe there are Two Pretences made; One, that elſewhere he Canonizeth all the reſt of the Conteſted Books; and another, that in this place he detracteth nothing in that behalf from the Books of the Maccabes, we will clear the way before us, and anſwer them both.”

4. fiil To regard (an artistic or written work or its creator) as one of a group that are representative of a particular field.

   “To these errors the Middle Ages contributed not a little by canonizing all the ancient authorities so that when modern historical criticism came into vogue the reaction against authority went too far and skepticism overleaped the mark.”

5. fiil Especially of a church: to give official approval to; to authorize, to sanction.

   “He ſhews, the Legate's Drift was to Canonize all the Abuſes of the Court of Rome: ſo they never ſuffer'd them to be treated of freely, but managed them like the Compounding of a Law-Suit: [...]”