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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
canonise .
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Examples
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It is profoundly tempting for Burke's Corner to join Hattersley in genuflecting before Shakespeare on this day ... especially the Shakespeare who celebrates and canonises the conservative virtues described by Hattersley.
Archive 2009-04-01 Burke's Corner 2009
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It is profoundly tempting for Burke's Corner to join Hattersley in genuflecting before Shakespeare on this day ... especially the Shakespeare who celebrates and canonises the conservative virtues described by Hattersley.
God for Harry, England and Saint George? Burke's Corner 2009
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Learning scepticism without vision is an unwholesome recipe for public life; it simply canonises suspicion as the ultimate sign of intellectual maturity – which is a good way from what earlier ages understood by understanding.
Oxford University Commemoration Day Sermon University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford 2004
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It blesses injustice, canonises the will of the powerful and reduces the poor to passivity, obedience, and apathy ...
Editorial 2001
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There were mere sketches of great poets, like Mathurin Regnier, like Rabelais, without any ideal, without the depth of emotion and the seriousness which canonises.
What Is a Classic 1909
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Large fortunes are made at this other sort of gambling, which, of course, sanctifies and almost canonises it.
Post-Prandial Philosophy Grant Allen 1873
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Every poet has it in him to imagine, to comprehend, and desire such a life as this; he who lives it canonises his genius, and, to the topmost manhood of the Seer, adds the Divinity of Heroism.
Dreams and Dream Stories Anna Bonus Kingsford 1867
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Photo: Christians pray during a mass at the Roman Catholic canonises Australia's first saint AFP
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Photo in Slideshow: Workers decorate with Vatican canonises Australia's first saint AFP
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Photo in Slideshow: Vatican to announce Australia's first saint canonises Australia's first saint AFP
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