canonized
past simple and past participle ofcanonize
canonize
verb[T]
(UKusuallycanonise)uk/ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/us/ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/canonizeverb[T](WORSHIP)
(in theRomanCatholicChurch) toannounceofficiallythat adeadpersonis asaint:
In Guatemala, thepopecanonized Pedro deSanJose de Betancurt,CentralAmerica's firstsaint.
Joan of Arc waseventuallycanonized in 1920.
Many would like toseehim canonized (as) asaint.
topraiseandadmiresomeone very much,especiallyin a way that is too much or that they do notdeserve:
Therebelleaderwas canonized by left-wingers in the late 1960s.
Although manydenouncedhim, thepresscanonized him as a new "Americanhero".
He was history's most canonizedbasketballplayer.
- Margaret was adeeplypiouswoman who wassubsequentlycanonized.
- PopeJohnPaul II canonized Juan Diego, the 16th-century Aztec whosevisionof the Virgin MaryhelpedspreadCatholicismto Mexico.
- Rather than canonize him for thestrengthanddignityhedisplayedin hisdyingdays, Iprefertorememberhim when he was in hisprime.
- Selflessfathersandfatherfiguresare beingcelebrated,evencanonized, on America'smoviescreens.
Religious ceremonies & prayers
- alleluia
- amen
- anoint
- anointed
- anointment
- burnt offering
- communicant
- communion
- confirm
- confirmation
- consecrate
- intercession
- litany
- liturgical
- liturgy
- ordain
- the last rites
- the Lord's Prayer
- unction
- vespers
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Praising and applauding
canonizeverb[T](OFFICIALLY APPROVE)
toacceptsomething asbelongingto acanon(= anofficiallist)ofrespectedworks,ideas, etc.:
Thisviewisbasedon theconceptionthat themainfunctionofcriticismis todefineand canonize thegenuineclassicsofliterature.
religionspecialized
inChristianity, toofficiallyapprovesomethingaccordingtoreligiousauthority:
TheconventionstunnedtheChurchby canonizing theordinationof women.
- Time and again, Freud wouldsettleon apositiononly toreverseorenlargethetheoryjust as hisadvocatesbeganto canonize it.
- TheBibleis alwaysinterpretedwithin thecontextofHolyTradition, which gavebirthto it and canonized it.
Approving & approval
- accepting
- affirmation
- approbate
- approbation
- approval
- approving
- be here forsomeoneidiom
- body positive
- countenance
- here
- nice
- nice one!idiom
- relegitimize
- royal assent
- seal
- seal of approvalidiom
- self-affirmation
- thumb
- thumbs upidiom
- votesomethingup or downidiom
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Literature
Examplesofcanonized
canonized
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
This argument has beencanonizedas the 'conventionalization thesis'.
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Gigantic monuments are in line withcanonized, hegemonic versions of remembrance.
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As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can becanonizedas inherited truths.
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We see the strategy by which, intentionally or not, the stand of the orthodoxy, through supposedly disinterested philosophical discussion, iscanonizedinto an overarching theory of the growth of knowledge.
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As long ascanonizedtexts 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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Canonizedprocedures for scientific work reproduce selves of experimenters and subjects alike, selves who acknowledge only part of their reflexive engagements.
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Many, though not all, of these studies examine episodes longcanonizedby the historiography of science as constitutive of whatever it is we mean by modern science.
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Canonized(yet reflexive) procedures for scientific work reproduce the multiple selves of researchers and subjects - selves that inhibit any further recognition of reflexivity or its horrors.
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First of all, in the absence of a clearcanonizeddefinition of the term there is no agreement on what actually constitute the parameters of light-classicality.
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When he wascanonized, places and people were named after him, which popularized the name.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she iscanonized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Two verified miracles must be attributed to a deceased candidate for sainthood before he or she can becanonized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.So with the other saintscanonizedby the council.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she wascanonized.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Twenty-five martyrs from the conflict would eventually becanonized, including six knights.
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