0 (in the Roman Catholic Church) to announce officially that a dead person is a saint:
He was history's most canonized basketball player.
Although many denounced him, the press canonized him as a new "American hero".
The rebel leader was canonized by left-wingers in the late 1960s.
Joan of Arc was eventually canonized in 1920.
In Guatemala, the pope canonized Pedro de San Jose de Betancurt, Central America's first saint.
1 to accept something as belonging to a canon (= an official list) of respected works, ideas, etc.:
The convention stunned the Church by canonizing the ordination of women.
This view is based on the conception that the main function of criticism is to define and canonize the genuine classics of literature.
The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized.
So with the other saints canonized by the council.
Two verified miracles must be attributed to a deceased candidate for sainthood before he or she can be canonized.
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.
That is, such logics canonize the notion of logical form, and the notion of validity plays the central normative role.
When he was canonized, places and people were named after him, which popularized the name.
You could canonize him or something of that sort, but there would be nothing else to be done.
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.