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Canonise

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Non-Oxford British English spelling of canonize.

    "[T]hat a rhetorician, like Libanius, a Pagan even to madneſs, ſhould think the Chriſtians capable of attempting the life of Julian, is not ſurpriſing. [...] But that an eccleſiaſtical hiſtorian, like Sozomen, ſhould be tempted to canoniſe ſo deteſtable an action, might perhaps not be credited on my aſſertion."

  2. 2
    declare (a dead person) to be a saint wordnet
  3. 3
    treat as a sacred person wordnet

Etymology

See canonize; analysable as canon + -ise.

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