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0 (in the Roman Catholic Church) to announce officially that a dead person is a saint:
- In Guatemala, the pope canonized Pedro de San Jose de Betancurt, Central America's first saint.
- Joan of Arc was eventually canonized in 1920.
- Many would like to see him canonized (as) a saint.
- The rebel leader was canonized by left-wingers in the late 1960s.
- Although many denounced him, the press canonized him as a new "American hero".
- He was history's most canonized basketball player.
1 to accept something as belonging to a canon (= an official list) of respected works, ideas, etc.:
- This view is based on the conception that the main function of criticism is to define and canonize the genuine classics of literature.
- The convention stunned the Church by canonizing the ordination of women.

Margaret was a deeply pious woman who was subsequently canonized.
Pope John Paul II canonized Juan Diego, the 16th-century Aztec whose vision of the Virgin Mary helped spread Catholicism to Mexico.
Rather than canonize him for the strength and dignity he displayed in his dying days, I prefer to remember him when he was in his prime.
Selfless fathers and father figures are being celebrated, even canonized, on America's movie screens.
Time and again, Freud would settle on a position only to reverse or enlarge the theory just as his advocates began to canonize it.
The Bible is always interpreted within the context of Holy Tradition, which gave birth to it and canonized it.
Had I been pope, he should have been canonized on the spot.
He was canonized as a saint.