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词汇 canonize
释义 canonize
verb[ T ]
(UK usuallycanonise)uk /ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/ us /ˈkæn.ə.naɪz/

canonizeverb[T] (WORSHIP)


(in the Roman Catholic Church) to announce officially that a dead person is a saint: (罗马天主教)封(死者)为圣徒
In Guatemala, the pope canonized Pedro de San Jose de Betancurt, Central America's first saint.
Joan of Arc was eventually canonized in 1920.
Many would like to see him canonized (as) a saint.
to praise and admire someone very much, especially in a way that is too much or that they do not deserve:
The rebel leader was canonized by left-wingers in the late 1960s.
Although many denounced him, the press canonized him as a new "American hero".
He was history's most canonized basketball player.
Margaret was a deeply pious woman who was subsequently canonized.
Pope John Paul II canonized Juan Diego, the 16th-century Aztec whose vision of the Virgin Mary helped spread Catholicism to Mexico.
Rather than canonize him for the strength and dignity he displayed in his dying days, I prefer to remember him when he was in his prime.
Selfless fathers and father figures are being celebrated, even canonized, on America's movie screens.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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alleluia
amen
anoint
anointed
anointment
confirm
confirmation
consecrate
consecration
dedicate
liturgical
liturgically
liturgy
thanksgiving
the Lord's Prayer
the Lord's Supper
unchristened
unction
unprogrammed
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Praising and applauding

canonizeverb[T] (OFFICIALLY APPROVE)


to accept something as belonging to a canon(= an official list) of respected works, ideas, etc.:
This view is based on the conception that the main function of criticism is to define and canonize the genuine classics of literature.
religion specialized
in Christianity, to officially approve something according to religious authority:
The convention stunned the Church by canonizing the ordination of women.
Time and again, Freud would settle on a position only to reverse or enlarge the theory just as his advocates began to canonize it.
The Bible is always interpreted within the context of Holy Tradition, which gave birth to it and canonized it.
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Approving & approval
accepting
affirmation
approbate
approbation
approval
baby
be here for someoneidiom
countenance
nice
nice one!idiom
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royal assent
seal
seal of approvalidiom
self-affirmation
self-approbation
thumb
thumbs upidiom
vote
vote something up or downidiom

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Literature

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canonization
Examples from literature

Had I been pope, he should have been canonized on the spot. 
He was canonized as a saint. 
He was canonized both for his holy life and for his great zeal in art. 
It was for his learning and sanctity that he was canonized,—and singularly enough by Alexander VI., the worst pope who ever reigned. 
The peasants had canonized him already a hundred years before the sanctity of his work was officially recognized at Rome. 

Examples of canonize


canonize
But to canonize the comparative method would be to show it scientific disrespect.
These workers, then, succeeded indirectly in canonizing themselves as national exemplars.
This argument has been canonized as the 'conventionalization thesis'.
As a linguistic process, transfiguration can be generative of new meanings, but the figures that are its products can be canonized as inherited truths.
A set of municipal statutory laws canonizing family concern for patrimonial cohesion represented the backbone of this mechanism.
We see the strategy by which, intentionally or not, the stand of the orthodoxy, through supposedly disinterested philosophical discussion, is canonized into an overarching theory of the growth of knowledge.
As long as canonized texts were involved, one could not proceed any further into the broad expanses in which the new science was asking its questions.
Many, though not all, of these studies examine episodes long canonized by the historiography of science as constitutive of whatever it is we mean by modern science.
You could canonize him or something of that sort, but there would be nothing else to be done.
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When he was canonized, places and people were named after him, which popularized the name.
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That is, such logics canonize the notion of logical form, and the notion of validity plays the central normative role.
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After her death, her body as well as her life are scrutinized for indications that she is a saint, and at last she is canonized.
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Two verified miracles must be attributed to a deceased candidate for sainthood before he or she can be canonized.
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So with the other saints canonized by the council.
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The order had 164 houses by 1767, when she was canonized.
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