canonise

verb

Etymology

See canonize; analysable as canon + -ise.

  1. derived from κανών
  2. derived from canōn
  3. inherited from canon
  4. derived from canon
  5. inherited from canoun
  6. suffixed as canonise — “canon + ise

Definitions

  1. Non-Oxford British English spelling of canonize.

    • Fifty-eight years ago Jolyon had become an Eton boy, for old Jolyon's whim had been that he should be canonised at the greatest possible expense.
    • Nay, where pilgrimages are not successful, they begin to canonise saints, not in honor of the saints—for they are sufficiently honored without canonisation—but in order to draw crowds and bring in money.

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