Had I been pope, he should have been canonized on the spot.
He was canonized as a saint.
He was canonized both for his holy life and for his great zeal in art.
It was for his learning and sanctity that he was canonized,—and singularly enough by Alexander VI., the worst pope who ever reigned.
The peasants had canonized him already a hundred years before the sanctity of his work was officially recognized at Rome.
canonize
verb[T]
(UKusuallycanonise)uk/ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/us/ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/
(in theRomanCatholicChurch) toannounceofficiallythat adeadpersonis asaint
（罗马天主教）封（死者）为圣徒
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But tocanonizethe comparative method would be to show it scientific disrespect.
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These workers, then, succeeded indirectly in canonizing themselves as national exemplars.
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This argument has been canonized as the 'conventionalization thesis'.
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As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.
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A set of municipal statutory laws canonizing family concern for patrimonial cohesion represented the backbone of this mechanism.
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We see the strategy by which, intentionally or not, the stand of the orthodoxy, through supposedly disinterested philosophical discussion, is canonized into an overarching theory of the growth of knowledge.
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As long as canonized texts were involved, one could not proceed any further into the broad expanses in which the new science was asking its questions.
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Many, though not all, of these studies examine episodes long canonized by the historiography of science as constitutive of whatever it is we mean by modern science.
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You couldcanonizehim or something of that sort, but there would be nothing else to be done.
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When he was canonized, places and people were named after him, which popularized the name.
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That is, such logicscanonizethe notion of logical form, and the notion of validity plays the central normative role.
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After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she is canonized.
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Two verified miracles must be attributed to a deceased candidate for sainthood before he or she can be canonized.
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So with the other saints canonized by the council.
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The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized.
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