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Meanings of canonize in English

Portuguese
canonizar
Catalan
beatificar

Declare (a dead person) to be a saint.

        canonizar
        Usage of canonize in English
        1
        French critics have even gone so far as to canonize Poe.
        History of American Literature
        2
        If I belonged to their tribe, the Catholics might canonize me.
        With friends like these
        3
        If you remain moderately virtuous, we will canonize you.
        Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
        4
        I've just wired the Pope to canonize him the instant his heart misses a beat.
        The ginger man
        5
        My dear girl, don't canonize me on that account!
        The Top of the World
        6
        If voluminousness alone made a man a great writer, we should have to canonize Lord Lytton.
        The Art of Letters
        7
        Jewish groups have urged the Vatican not to canonize him, at least until wartime records are clearer.
        Reuters
        8
        She has done miracles here, but if her whole life were known they ought to canonize her.
        The Village Rector
        9
        How does the Church canonize a saint?
        Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 / An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat...
        10
        Why does the Church canonize holy persons?
        Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 / An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat...
        11
        Saint-Ramon, how just I was to sanctify your name, to canonize you, for you are not ungrateful!
        A Cardinal Sin
        12
        The Democracy, through all its organs, hastened to canonize him as one of the saints of its calendar.
        Old Portraits and Modern Sketches / Part 1 from Volume VI of The...
        13
        We sympathize with nations that overthrow the thrones, and in our secret hearts we almost canonize individuals who slay the tyrants.
        Bits about Home Matters
        14
        The men of this world will canonize those for saints, when dead, whom they stigmatized with the vilest names when living.
        Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
        15
        Shit, it was useless and stupid a couple of whole centuries earlier than that-enslavingpeople, giving sheep a butcher to canonize.
        Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
        16
        Francis will canonize Joseph Vaz, who re-established the Church in Sri Lanka in the 17th century after it was crushed by Dutch Calvinists.
        Reuters
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        Translations for canonize
        Portuguese
        canonizar
        Canonize through the time