Crossword-Solution: CANONIZE 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 19

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Word Word Type Definition
Canonize v. t. To declare (a deceased person) a saint; to put in the
catalogue of saints; as, Thomas a Becket was canonized.
Canonize v. t. To glorify; to exalt to the highest honor.
Canonize v. t. To rate as inspired; to include in the canon.

We have 15 clues for the answer “CANONIZE”

Clue Answers
Elevate to sainthood 1 answer
treat as a sacred person 1 answer
Make sacrosanct 2 answers
DECLARE a saint 2 answers
SAINT, declare person a 2 answers
DEIFY OR GLORIFY 9 answers
DECLARE TO BE A SAINT 11 answers
Saint 18 answers
beatify 35 answers
immortalise 54 answers
Commend 55 answers
Glorify 56 answers
Applaud 57 answers
Dignify 60 answers
Acclaim 75 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with CANONIZE (5)

His mother--he always spoke of her with unvarying tenderness and reverence--had suffered enough, he said, to canonize her if she were not a saint already; she had brought him up to have a great horror of liquor, and he had never touched it till he went into the army.
The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 2008
Triumph! sing triumphs, then! Oh, put on all Your richest lookes, drest for this festivall! Thoughts full of ravisht reverence, with eyes So fixt, as when a saint we canonize; Clap wings with Seraphins before the throne At this eternall coronation, And teach your soules new mirth, such as may be Worthy this birth-day to divinity.
Lucasta Richard Lovelace 1996
Time must first do its office--must silence the passions, remove the actors, develop consequences, and canonize all that is sacred to honor, patriotism, and glory.
Thomas Hart Benton's Remarks to the Senate on the Expunging Resolution Thomas Hart Benton 1996
But, worthy Hector, She is a theme of honour and renown, A spur to valiant and magnanimous deeds, Whose present courage may beat down our foes, And fame in time to come canonize us; For I presume brave Hector would not lose So rich advantage of a promis’d glory As smiles upon the forehead of this action For the wide world’s revenue.
Troilus and Cressida William Shakespeare 1998
Accordingly, * it must proclaim them heroes and martyrs, * it must canonize their memory,[1182] * it must avenge their tortures, * it must resume and complete their assaults, * it must restore their accomplices to their places, * it must render them omnipotent, * it must force each rebel city to accept the rule of its rabble and villains.
The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 4 (of 6) Hippolyte A. Taine 2001

Quotes with CANONIZE (3)

Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child.
Francis of Assisi
I’m only doing my job.” That’s what I am. His job. He’d stopped my floor shows at the cantina. Not only that, the break-ins had ceased. At least until now. While the staff barely gave me the time of day, they were practically ready to canonize him. “They see you as the one in charge now.
Magda Alexander Storm Conquered
I have no issue with Rosa Parks. But I do have an issue with liberals trying to canonize her in order to glorify themselves and legitimize their route to 'progress' through political and racial agitation instead of hard work and character.
Jesse Lee Peterson
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT.

Used 4 times in crossword archives (1982–2008).