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