[kan-uh-nahyz] 
| 1. | Ecclesiastical. to place in the canon of saints. |
| 2. | to glorify. |
| 3. | to make canonical; place or include within a canon, esp. of scriptural works: They canonized the Song of Solomon after much controversy. |
| 4. | to consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy: They canonized his many verbal foibles and made them gospel. |
| 5. | to sanction or approve authoritatively, esp. ecclesiastically. |
| 6. | Archaic. to deify. |
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