Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of canonical authority.
- To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of canonical authority.
- transitive verb To reduce from the rank of a canonized saint.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To deprive of
canonical authority . - verb transitive To reduce from the rank of a canonized
saint .
Etymologies
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un- + canonize
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Examples
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The exclusion from the courts of the malign influence of all authorities after the _Georgium sidus_ became ascendant, would uncanonize Blackstone, whose book, although the most elegant and best digested of our law catalogue, has been perverted more than all others to the degeneracy of legal science.
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 Thomas Jefferson 1784
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