0 present participle of canonize
1 (in the Roman Catholic Church) to announce officially that a dead person is a saint
These workers, then, succeeded indirectly in canonizing themselves as national exemplars.
A set of municipal statutory laws canonizing family concern for patrimonial cohesion represented the backbone of this mechanism.
The scribal class was the social group responsible for maintaining, transmitting, and canonizing literary classics, and writing new compositions.